High And Low (Special Edition) DVD

• 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono (Japanese)
• New audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
• A 37-minute documentary on the making of High And Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful To Create
• Rare archival interview with Toshiro Mifune
• New video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper
• Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S.
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a reprinted essay by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie
• More!

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai

Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's highly influential domestic drama and police procedural High And Low. Adapting Ed McBain's detective novel King's Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society. Criterion is proud to present High And Low (Tengoko to jigoku) in this new high-definition digital transfer.