High and Low Stark, intense drama almost beyond belief! In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake. Details Casts Title High and Low Release Date 1963-03-01 Runtime 02 Hours 22 Minutes Genres Drama Crime Mystery Thriller Production Companies TOHO, Kurosawa Production Production Countries Japan Toshirō Mifune Kingo Gondo Tatsuya Nakadai Chief Detective Tokura Kyōko Kagawa Reiko Gondo Tatsuya Mihashi Kawanishi, Gondo's secre? Isao Kimura Detective Arai Kenjirō Ishiyama Chief Detective 'Bos'n' ? Takeshi Katō Detective Nakao Takashi Shimura Chief of Investigation S? Jun Tazaki Kamiya, National Shoes P? Nobuo Nakamura Ishimaru, National Shoes? Yūnosuke Itō Baba - National Shoes Ex? Tsutomu Yamazaki Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medic? Minoru Chiaki First Reporter Eijirō Tōno Factory Worker Masao Shimizu Prison Warden Yutaka Sada Aoki - the Chauffeur Masahiko Shimazu Shinichi Aoki Toshio Egi Jun Gondo Kōji Mitsui Second Reporter Kyū Sazanka First Creditor Susumu Fujita Chief of First Investiga? Kamatari Fujiwara Junkyard Cook Yoshio Tsuchiya Detective Murata Kazuo Kitamura Third Reporter Gen Shimizu Chief Physician Akira Nagoya Detective Yamamoto Jun Hamamura Second Creditor Masao Oda First Executor at Tax Of? Kō Nishimura Third Creditor Yoshibumi Tajima Chief Prison Officer Koji Kiyomura Fish Market Office Worker Hiroshi Unayama Detective Shimada Yoshisuke Makino Detective Takahashi Jun Kondô Identification Center Wo? Tomo Suzuki Detective Koike Senkichi Ōmura Messenger Passing Note t? Kazuo Katō Identification Center Wo? Ikio Sawamura Yokohama Station Trolley? Kin Sugai Female Drug Addict Keiko Tomita Murder Victim Isao Onoda Male Drug Addict Seiichi Taguchi Detective Nakamura Takeo Matsushita Second Executor at Tax O? Kiyoshi Yamamoto Detective Ueno Kenji Kodama Detective Hara Minoru Itō Detective Haruo Suzuki Undercover Detective 'Dr? Kōzō Nomura Detective (uncredited)