Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai) is unforgettable as Kingo Go a wealthy industrialist whose family b es the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low (Tengoku to jigo the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosowa (Rashomon). Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel "King’s Rans Kurosawa moves effortlessly from pelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social ment creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society.