Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present High and Low on Friday, Jan. 20, at 8 p.m. at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 2160 Hwy 70, Swannanoa.
High and Low
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In Brief: For his 1963 suspense film High and Low, Akira Kurosawa seems to have been actually trying to draw the wrath of those who find his work too “Western” by choosing the Ed McBain novel King’s Ransom for his source material. What could possibly be more Western — indeed, more downright American — than a McBain novel? Then again, High and Low is Kurosawa taking a shot at a kind of Hitchcock suspense thriller, and he was so sufficiently good at it that the film was one of the few works singled out for detailed attention in William K. Everson’s 1972 pioneering book on the genre, The Detective in Film. It may not be one of Kurosawa’s best works, but it’s certainly a worthy one. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on Jan. 25, 2011.
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| Genre: | Suspense Thriller |
| Director: | Akira Kurosawa |
| Starring: | Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura |
| Rated: | NR |
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