Word: yokohama
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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...
...popular crime, since a conviction brings a sentence of only one to ten years if the victim is returned unharmed. But the film is no mere polemic. The story begins with a business conclave in a luxurious home perched on a hilltop high above the smoking slums of Yokohama. While a shoe company executive named Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) struggles with his unprincipled colleagues in a last-ditch fight for control of the firm, a kidnaper strikes. Intending to seize Gondo's young son, he nabs the chauffeur's boy by mistake. Swiftly, the issues narrow to meaningful dimensions...
...criminal, police follow him around interminably, wasting precious time in expressions of teahouse sympathy for Mr. Gondo, who has become a national hero and nearly gone bankrupt after getting the boot from National Shoes. But Kurosawa generates fresh energy as hunter and hunted make their way through the Yokohama underworld, and he finds flesh-and-blood truth in a final confrontation between Gondo and his enemy. The two men stare. Antithesis embodied, they are high and low-the man from the great glass house on the hill and the angry, anonymous underdog who loathes him from afar. "It is very...
...coal cars halted on a slight incline. One coal car rolled back down into the mine. Gathering speed, it flew off the track on a curve in the tunnel and struck the mine wall, showering the fatal sparks that ignited coal dust in a vast explosion. At Tsurumi, outside Yokohama, another cotter pin evidently sheared off the wheel housing of a southbound freight car. The loose lost wheel caused the last three cars to derail and sprawl across the adjacent track. Seconds later, alerted by a warning flare, a passenger train southbound from Tokyo halted on a clear track beside...
...Japanese had heart to enter the argument; they were too busy burying the dead and worrying about the survivors. Of the 274 hospitalized miners, an alarming 100 were suffering from amnesia. As traffic resumed on the Tokyo-Yokohama line, the trains moved slowly past Tsurumi and sobbing passengers dropped bouquets at the accident spot. Railway workers collected the flowers and reverently arranged them on an embankment beside the track...