High and Low

“The first half of High and Low is so well told, paced, acted, and shot—and it's all in one room! Then you get into this fascinating police procedural where Toshiro Mifune and his family vanish and the cops take over.”

Bill Hader

Actor, Director

“High and Low by Kurosawa to me is like the perfect entertainment film. It's a great chase, three acts, a perfect script, a sense of a film being allowed to be different things yet very developing in its dramaturgy.”

Joachim Trier

Director

“Stanley Kubrick told me that when I was this age I should do a remake of this movie, it's a story about a man who worked his way up from making shoes to becoming an executive and then faces a moral dilemma when the wrong child is kidnapped.”

Matthew Modine

Actor

“This is just a truly masterful film to me and I think Kurosawa is so amazing. I watched this like 50 times — it all felt like a dance, like the camera is dancing but also the actors are doing their own choreography.”

Ayo Edebiri

Actor, Comedian