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The Criterion Collection has announced that Akira Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW will be released September 9, 2025 in a 4K UHD + Blu-ray set. A Blu-ray edition is also available for purchase.
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in HIGH AND LOW, the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. 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.
HIGH AND LOW
1963 • 143 minutes • Black & White/Color • 4.0 surround • In Japanese with English subtitles • 2.39:1 aspect ratio
4K UHD + BLU-RAY COMBO EDITION
SRP: $49.95
STREET: 9/9/25
CAT. NO.: CC3719UHDBD
ISBN: 979-8-88607-324-9
UPC: 7-15515-31891-4
4K + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- Documentary on the making of HIGH AND LOW, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
- Interviews with actors Toshiro Mifune and Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Trailers and teaser
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an on-set account by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
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