My favourite Akira Kurosawa movie is not one of his samurai epics (though Yojimbo would win my vote in that category) - it is in fact a 1963 film noir adaptation of Ed McBain's detective novel "King's Ransom" in which a wealthy industrialist whose becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper - entitled "High and Low" the film is about to be reissued for a second time by Criterion - this time in a double disc special edition with a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, a 37-minute making of documentary, a rare archival interview with Toshiro Mifune, a new interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper, improved English subtitle translation and a essay by Donald Richie.
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