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...Democratic Party pork, to set up a broad system of professional minor league teams in small markets. Still another plan is a World Baseball Cup, like that of soccer, held once every four years. But all require conviction and/or money, commodities in short supply in recession-ridden Japan. Hiroshi Gondo, ex-manager of the Yokohama Bay Stars, is especially skeptical: "I've been involved in Japanese pro ball for 40 years, and the one thing I can say is that nothing ever changes...
...Taka Gondo, a representative from Hitachi Telecom, said that Japanese companies are still very focused on internationalizing their employees. He referred to Sakamoto Ryoma, a ronin (masterless samurai) hero who helped unify Japan and is idealized as a patriot...
Mifune plays National Shoes executive Kingo Gondo, a man looking out from his house high on a hilltop overlooking the city of Yokohama. In charge of manufacturing, he has just rejected the plan of the three executives of sales, design, and publicity: to pool their stock and take over National Shoes. After throwing them out, Gondo reveals to his assistant that he has borrowed on everything, including the house, in order to acquire enough stock to leverage his own takeover. The assistant is to take a check for 50 million yen to Osaka to complete the transaction, but the phone...
Based on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct mystery novel, High and Low does not neglect McBain's trademark: the details of police procedures. The account of the police's efforts to catch the kidnapper turned killer is as fascinating as Gondo's conflict...
...Gondo, Mifune's performance performance in the first half of the movie dominates the whole, even though he has three short scenes in the second half before the denouement. Tatsuya Nakadai (of Sword of Doom, as students in Heroes for Zeroes may realize) radiates competence as the police in charge of the case. He resembles Dale Cooper, of Twin Peaks fame, complete with slicked back hair and stylish, dark suits...