High and Low (天国と地獄) 61 years old
From Akira Kurosawa, director of "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro" comes a tense, taut film of a modern "perfect crime" with more excitement than even Hitchcock could create.
An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Credits
High and Low Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Tatsuya Nakadai He was 30, now 92 years old | as Chief Detective Tokura |
| Kyôko Kagawa She was 31, now 93 years old | as Reiko Gondo |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya He was 36, 89 years old when he died | as Detective Murata |
| Takashi Shimura He was 58, 76 years old when he died | as Chief of Investigation Section |
| Tsutomu Yamazaki He was 26, now 88 years old | as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern |
| Akira Nagoya He was 32, 72 years old when he died | as Detective Yamamoto |
| Koji Mitsui was 9, 5 years old when died | as Second Reporter |
| Ikio Sawamura He was 58, 70 years old when he died | as Yokohama Station Trolley Man |
| Kazuo Kitamura He was 36, 80 years old when he died | as Third Reporter |
| Jun Hamamura He was 57, 89 years old when he died | as Second Creditor |
| Masahiko Shimazu He was 11, now 72 years old | as Shinichi Aoki |
| Kamatari Fujiwara He was 58, 80 years old when he died | as Junkyard Cook |
| Tatsuya Mihashi He was 40, 80 years old when he died | as Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary |
| Kyû Sazanka He was 21, 29 years old when he died | as First Creditor |
| Yutaka Sada He was 52, 106 years old when he died | as Aoki - the Chauffeur |
| Kenjiro Ishiyama He was 60, 72 years old when he died | as Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi |
| Kô Nishimura He was 40, 74 years old when he died | as Third Creditor |
| Yoshifumi Tajima He was 45, 91 years old when he died | as Chief Prison Officer |
| Nobuo Nakamura He was 55, 82 years old when he died | as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director |
| Eijirō Tōno He was 56, 87 years old when he died | as Factory Worker |
| Jun Tazaki He was 50, 72 years old when he died | as Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director |
| Yūnosuke Itō He was 44, 60 years old when he died | as Baba - National Shoes Executive |
| Susumu Fujita He was 51, 78 years old when he died | as Chief of First Investigating Section |
| Isao Kimura He was 40, 58 years old when he died | as Detective Arai |
| Hiroshi Unayama He was 27, 48 years old when he died | as Detective Shimada |
| Toshio Egi He was 10, now 72 years old | as Jun Gondo |
| Kin Sugai She was 37, 92 years old when she died | as Female Drug Addict |
| Toshiro Mifune He was 43, 77 years old when he died | as Kingo Gondo |
| Gen Shimizu He was 56, 65 years old when he died | as Chief Physician |
| Minoru Chiaki He was 46, 82 years old when he died | as First Reporter |
| Masao Shimizu He was 55, 67 years old when he died | as Prison Warden |
| Minoru Itô | as Detective |
| Takeo Matsushita | as Second Executor at Tax Office |
| Kiyoshi Yamamoto He was 79, 76 years old when he died | as Detective Ueno |
| Takeshi Kato He was 21, 39 years old when he died | as Detective Nakao |
| Yoshisuke Makino | as Detective Takahashi |
| Satoshi Suzuki | as Detective Koike |
| Masao Oda He was 55, 65 years old when he died | as First Executor at Tax Office |
| Senkichi Ômura He was 40, 69 years old when he died | as Messenger Passing Note to Intern |
| Seiichi Taguchi He was 33, now 94 years old | as Detective Nakamura |
| Isao Onoda | as Male Drug Addict |
| Haruo Suzuki | as Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict' |
| Kenji Kodama He was 13, now 75 years old | as Detective Hara |
| Kôzô Nomura | as Detective (uncredited) |
| Jun Kondo He was 33, now 94 years old | as Identification Center Worker |
| Kazuo Katô | as Identification Center Worker |
| Keiko Tomita She was 26, now 87 years old | as Murder Victim |
| Koji Kiyomura | as Fish Market Office Worker |
High and Low Crew
| Name | Department |
|---|---|
| Tomoyuki Tanaka as Producer. He was 53 (86) years old when He died | Production |
| Masaru Sato as Original Music Composer. He was 35 (71) years old when He died | Sound |
| Hideo Oguni as Screenplay. He was 59 (91) years old when He died | Writing |
| Shirô Moritani as Assistant Director. He was 32 (53) years old when He died | Directing |
| Ryûzô Kikushima as Producer. | Production |
| Ryûzô Kikushima as Screenplay. | Writing |
| Katsuhiro Kato as Camera Intern. | Camera |
| Yôichi Matsue as Assistant Director. | Directing |
| Takao Saito as Director of Photography. He was 27 (78) years old when He died | Camera |
| Yoshirō Muraki as Production Design. He was 39 (85) years old when He died | Art |
| Teruyo Nogami as Script Supervisor. She was 36 (now 97) years old | Directing |
| Asakazu Nakai as Director of Photography. He was 62 (86) years old when He died | Camera |
| Eijirô Hisaita as Screenplay. | Writing |
| Miyuki Suzuki as Costume Design. | Costume & Make-Up |
| Kenjirô Ohmori as Assistant Director. | Directing |
High and Low (61 years)
From Akira Kurosawa, director of "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro" comes a tense, taut film of a modern "perfect crime" with more excitement than even Hitchcock could create.
- Release day: Friday, March 01, 1963
- Runtime: 142 minutes
- Budget: 250000.00