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HIGH AND LOW. Without a samurai in sight, Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa sets the screen crackling with excitement as his camera trails a vicious kidnaper through the Yokohama underworld...
HIGH AND LOW. Without a samurai in sight, Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa sets the screen crackling with excitement as his camera trails a vicious kidnaper through the Yokohama underworld...
HIGH AND LOW. In modern Yokohama, a kidnaper bungles his attempt to nab a wealthy shoemaker's child. And Director Akira Kurosawa demonstrates that all it takes is genius to transform a routine suspense yarn into fascinating drama...
...screen and just as suddenly dissolves. At one point, while the heroes grapple in a foot of snow, the sound track plays ethnic music from equatorial Africa. And all through the film, the cinemate moviegoer will be able to detect sly little mementos of D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Akira Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni-and Ma and Pa Kettle...
HIGH AND LOW. In modern Yokohama, a vicious kidnaper bungles his attempt to nab a wealthy shoemaker's child. And Director Akira Kurosawa coolly demonstrates that all it takes is genius to transform a routine suspense yarn into fascinating drama...