High and Low / Tengoku to jigoku (1963) [The Criterion Collection]

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Hideo Oguni, Ryûzô Kikushima, Eijirô Hisaita
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai

Toshiro Mifune 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 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 contemporary Japanese society.

Extras:
- Restored high-definition digital transfer, with original four-track surround sound, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- A thirty-seven-minute documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create (37:02, Japanese dialog with English subs)
- Rare interview with actor Toshiro Mifune from 1981 (30:31, Japanese dialog with English subs)
- Interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki (19:05, Japanese dialog with English subs)
- Theatrical trailers from Japan (03:38, Japanese dialog with English subs) and the U.S. (01:43)