Brand: The Criterion Collection

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• Brand Name: Ingram Entertainment Mfg#: 715515085915
• Shipping Weight: 0.37 lbs
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• Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
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Format: collectors_edition

PartNumber: 17542415

Release Date: 26-07-2011

Details: Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai) is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosowa (Rashomon). 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. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • High-definition digital restoration, with original four-track surround sound presented in DTS-HD Master Audio • Audio commentary by 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 • Rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune • Video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper • Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S. • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a reprinted on-set account by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie

UPC: 715515085915

EAN: 0715515085915

Model: 17542415

Languages: English

Binding: blu_ray

Item Condition: New