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60 of 172 · most liked firstWatching High and Low on Max. Such a change of pace for Kurosawa. Nearly half the film takes place in Gondo’s house. The dynamic & elegant CinemaScope blocking & lack of music create coiled tension that becomes nerve-wracking. Great use of windows & doors to create frames within frames.
unlabelledView post →Frame one of Akira Kurosawa's High and Low had me pause the film and do a lap around the apartment. Spike Lee, even with Denzel Washington at your disposal, why did you even try?
unlabelledView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday 📽️! Another great #LastFourWatched for me with a film from director Akira Kurosawa (at the cinema) being the highlight. What have you been watching? Warfare (2025) High and Low (1963) Shanghai Express (1932) Sorcerer (1977)
unlabelledView post →Books to Films 📚=🎞️ King's Ransom (1959) by Ed McBain was adapted by Akira Kurosawa as High and Low (1963). Considered a loose adaption, the film makes the protagonist more sympathetic & is less of a police procedural. Kurosawa focuses on class disparity unlike the book. 💼💸📈 #booksky #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Got my Hank Howell plushie by @pitiyindee.bsky.social today and decided to bring him to my favorite movie theater @kankancinema.bsky.social to watch the Akira Kurosawa classic High and Low!! Its a really good film that holds up pretty well today
unlabelledView post →This is going to go so hard. People were just outright dismissing this as if Spike wanted to dishonor Kurosawa but it might be my most anticipated American movie of the summer. Also, stop calling this a remake. It, like High and Low before it, is an adaption of King’s Ransom. Ed McBain respect!
unlabelledView post →Tonight’s movie selection is “High and Low” (1963). Dir. Akira Kurosawa. If you look up “influential” in the movie dictionary, I’m sure there’s a frame from this film. Wow!
unlabelledView post →Best new to me movies of 2024: The Swimmer News from Home Portrait of Jason American Movie 400 Blows High and Low Close-Up Before Sunrise/Sunset Working Girls Dark Waters Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Out of Sight Rushmore Daisies Los Angeles Plays Itself Cure Brief Encounter Days of Heaven Pulse
unlabelledView post →I never posted this, but here's the film still studies I did on Saturday. Films studied: The Night of the Hunter, High and Low, and Stalker. Today we're researching and then drawing a new tarot card! See you in 10 mins on twitch! twitch.tv/carsondrewit
unlabelledView post →Prepping for the upcoming Spike Lee version with a Kurosawa film, High and Low, I've been meaning to watch for years. It's on Max.
unlabelledView post →#Edwards1000SixtiesMovies 329/1000: HIGH AND LOW Just done watchin' the greatest kidnapping-themed movie in the history of cinema. This can be actually divided into two parts: 1) the lead's moral dilemma on paying the ransom or not and 2) the police's investigation of the kidnapper's identity.
unlabelledView post →Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan’s most celebrated stage and screen actors who was a frequent collaborator of director Masaki Kobayashi and led Akira Kurosawa titles such as “Ran,” “Kagemusha” and “High and Low,” has died. He was 92: variety.com/2025/film/ob...
unlabelledView post →Got my copy of the BFI release of Kurosawa's 'High And Low'. Prompted a wee tribute drawing. Such a brilliant film.
unlabelledView post →Now watching my all-time favorite movie: HIGH AND LOW [1963] Directed by Akira Kurosawa ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
unlabelledView post →Rewatched Kurosawa's High and Low (1963) and that film starts tense and doesn't let up for 143 mins. Claustrophobic pressure cooker that's so good that I have zero desire to see a remake of it.
unlabelledView post →"High and Low" is not that well known, but I'd contend it is Kurozawa's most thrilling film, Mifune's greatest screen performance, as well as a mind-blowing exercise in virtuosic film-making - the "famous" train scene, never bettered, as no-one would have the guts to try anything like it again.
unlabelledView post →Spike Lee: ‘I don’t know how we can talk about American values considering who the president is’ The director presented ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ at the Cannes Film Festival. Starring Denzel Washington, it’s a vibrant retelling of Akira Kurosawa’s classic ‘High and Low’ english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
unlabelledView post →Let’s just list the Nakadai films I own: Seven Samurai Yojimbo Harakiri High and Low Kwaidan The Sword of Doom Samurai Rebellion Ran Gotta think that’s a sizable % of my favorite Japanese films period. What a career. (And RAN was the first Japanese movie I ever saw, so he was iconic for me.)
unlabelledView post →Rewatched HIGH AND LOW to get ready for the new Spike next week. Of course a great film, not just a terrific work of tension and cinematic staging, but a really searing look at contemporaneous Japanese class structure (that part I didn't remember so well). Kurosawa made pretty good movies I guess.
unlabelledView post →Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW, a fantasy film about a business man who became rich via hard work and still has ethics and puts a quality product over short term profits. Somehow, it inspired a BATMAN movie.
unlabelledView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #269 "High and Low" (Akira Kurosawa/1963) Kurosawa's thriller masterpiece. There's not much I can say about this one that hasn't already been said. Deserves the praise it has heaped on it. This is one to be watched!
unlabelledView post →My movie watches for November. Favourite new-to-me watches were The Apartment, High and Low, Conclave, and Winchester ‘73. What was your fav first watch last month? Did you watch any old favourites?
unlabelledView post →High and Low. 1963. Dir: Akira Kurosawa. If you haven’t journeyed into Kurosawa yet, this is an excellent starting point. 60s film noir; a perfectly twisted crime thriller, set against a backdrop of Tokyo hilltop mansions and their guttural slums below. Spectacular. #filmsky #cinema #kurosawa
unlabelledView post →Happy birthday, Franz Schubert! Showing Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW because it features some of his music, all uncredited, and because that's enough of an excuse to play a Kurosawa film.
unlabelledView post →Finally watched a bunch of Kurosawa's work and My God, yeah he's the real deal. High and Low in particular an absolute masterpiece. Beautifully crafted film. Yojimbo also early in the week. Thanks Japan. You guys are cool. Keep being cool. That cool? #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky
unlabelledView post →best shit i watched for the first time in August: Bijou The Naked Gun Weapons Advise & Consent 88:88 High and Low Boys Go to Jupiter A Grand Mockery Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps
unlabelledView post →My ★★★★★ review of High and Low boxd.it/9fu6BT Kurasowa, king of massive epics, lessens the scale but not the intensity in this methodical crime drama. What would you sacrifice to save a life? Part morality play, part police procedural, wholly successful. #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬 Criterion Collection 24
unlabelledView post →Spike Lee is set to return to Cannes with his A24 film “Highest 2 Lowest,” a reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller “High and Low,” starring Denzel Washington. Lee last attended in 2021 as jury president. #cannes #spikelee #movienews
unlabelledView post →My review of the double-bill re-release of Stray Dog (1949) (dir. Akira Kurosawa) and High And Low (1963) (dir. Akira Kurosawa) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
unlabelledView post →Announcing our next Taradrome program: KUROSAWA CRIME! JAN 7 — THE BAD SLEEP WELL FEB 4 — HIGH AND LOW MAR 4 — STRAY DOG First Tuesdays of the month, 7:30pm at @thetaraatlanta. www.taraatlanta.com/movie/taradr...
unlabelledView post →Watched the Kurosawa film “High and Low” with the boyf tonight, inspired by the recent “Criterion Closet Picks” with Hideo Kojima. He was right, great film with some really jarring scenes! Tsutomu Yamazaki gave a really chilling performance in it. I’m gay, and this has been my movie review! 🐗💪🎥🍿🌈
unlabelledView post →Inspired by Spike Lee’s new remake, Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso check out Kurosawa’s original High and Low. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →Spike Lee on going to film school + being inspired by Kurosawa — HIGHEST 2 LOWEST is a reimagining of Kurosawa’s HIGH AND LOW
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching HIGH AND LOW (1963). Director: Akira Kurasowa. Toshiro Mifune, Yutaka Sada. Feeling like some Kurasowa will right the world today. Love that one of his best (up with SEVEN SAMURAI & RAN) was modern adaptation of Ed McBain crime novel. Rewatch. #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬 Criterion Collection 24
unlabelledView post →Just watched High and Low for the first time the other day, now that's a movie
unlabelledView post →Thanksgiving's first Noirvember movie is High and Low. Never seen it.
unlabelledView post →GF and I just watched High and Low last night before seeing Highest 2 Lowest this week! Really solid Dudes Rock film.
unlabelledView post →Join us on Tuesday, February 4th, at 7:30pm for a new restoration of Akira Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW (1963) at @taraatlanta.bsky.social! Introducing the screening is Aaron Strand — filmmaker, podcaster, and Kurosawa afficionado. www.taraatlanta.com/movie/taradr... #atlanta #kurosawa #wiiiidescreen
unlabelledView post →Btw if you’ve never seen HIGH AND LOW I strongly recommend watching HIGHEST 2 LOWEST first, so you can appreciate the highly entertaining movie it is without constantly thinking about the masterpiece it isn’t.
unlabelledView post →Choose one film each from 50 great directors. Name the film and director, along with a still. 2/50 Film: High and Low (1963) Director: Akira Kurosawa #filmsky #filmchallenge
unlabelledView post →📽️ #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched THE GRAY MAN - action movie from Russo bros borrows from better films BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F - By far the best BHC sequel L.A. CONFIDENTIAL - best film of 1997 HIGH AND LOW - tense first hour setup, is followed by magnificent 90 minute police investigation
unlabelledView post →337.) High and Low (1963) Decided to break open one of my unopened Criterions tonight. You should really go into this movie as blind as possible like I did because the twists and turns, combined Toriyama's fantastic direction, kept me rapt at attention throughout the movie.
unlabelledView post →Our movie podcast Repertory Screenings finally returns from the health break I had to take as we watch Kurosawa’s incredible High and Low www.abnormalmapping.com/trashpect-ra...
unlabelledView post →Probably should have watched High and Low ages ago but it’s great. Movies listed in alt text #LastFourWatched
unlabelledView post →jan 1 - The Death of Dick Long - i was told to go into this one blind because it'd be "crazier" that way. i knew how the entire movie would play out in the opening credits. not bad! not that shocking jan 2 - High and Low - this was gripping! i found myself moved to tears with the big end monologue
unlabelledView post →I love that this movie is basically scummy HIGH AND LOW
unlabelledView post →If you buy one classic movie on blu-ray this year, make it the BFI release of the 4K restoration of Kurosawa’s HIGH AND LOW (1966).
unlabelledView post →Tonight's film is... High and Low (1963). It's Kurosawa and I came across it a while ago when doing some research on blocking and this was used as a great example.
unlabelledView post →A great film from each year of the 1960s: 1960: Psycho 1961: A Raisin in the Sun 1962: The Manchurian Candidate 1963: High and Low 1964: Sex and the Single Girl 1965: The Sound of Music 1966: Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? 1967: In the Heat of the Night 1968: Rosemary's Baby 1969: The Learning Tree
unlabelledView post →Fave film for each year of the 1960s: 1960 - The Apartment 1961 - La Notte 1962 - Cléo from 5 to 7 1963 - High And Low 1964 - A Hard Day’s Night 1966 - Blow-Up 1967 - The Graduate 1968 - Hour Of The Wolf 1969 - The Italian Job
unlabelledView post →Shoe manufacturer has to pay 30 million yen or his chauffeur's kid gets it in High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963). This movie is an incredible masterpiece. The first time I saw it I was captivated by the thrilling story, last week I was struck by the brilliant choreography. 1/
unlabelledView post →#Noirvember #Noirvemberchallenge 11. Favorite bar scene or cocktail in a Film Noir - "High and Low" (when Ginjiro the Medical Intern goes to the crowded bar, sunglasses fully on, and the detectives follow him)
unlabelledView post →‘Now the film begins to reveal its method, which is to allow each story to be hijacked by another before it’s settled in. An invitation to this method can be found in Lee’s predecessors; the film is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low.’ Michael Wood at the movies www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
unlabelledView post →★★★★★ HIGH AND LOW - #AkiraKurosawa’s multi-layered Japanese noir, brilliantly plotted - now on #BFI Blu-ray - review @grahamrickson.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray...
unlabelledView post →My funniest movie going experience of 2025 was choosing to go see High and Low instead of going to my friend’s party. When I got out of the movie I found out my friend got ENGAGED at the party lmaooo
unlabelledView post →Been a while since I've done one of these! I don't know why I've watched the Omar and Cedric doc three times High and Low is incredible to look at if a little structurally flabby Smashing Machine is truly sauceless filmmaking Graveyard of Honor (2002) is maybe my fav gangster movie ever
unlabelledView post →Wrapped up writing for the evening and want to unwind with a movie. What should I watch, chat? Godfather, Uncut Gems, High and Low, Dune, Fire Walk With Me, Clue, The Shining, Parasite, Videodrome and Throne of Blood are some options I’m mulling over.
unlabelledView post →Plugged a major Akira Kurosawa gap this weekend when I watched his 1963 masterpiece High and Low. A long film that feels like two or three movies in one, though never in a bad way, High and Low begins as a thriller that's mainly confined to one room and then moves out into the community, becoming a
unlabelledView post →apologies to anyone who follows my blog on the rss feed, you will probably start getting posts in a few months saying "Watched High and Low again. Good movie"
unlabelledView post →Tough qqn.. One of..🤔 "High and Low". directed by Akira Kurosawa. A loose adaptation of the 1959 novel "King's Ransom" by Evan Hunter. #Booksky #Japan #1960s
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