High and Low

“I'm going to take High and Low. I've been seeing this popping off again on Letterboxd, which I think is good because this is just a truly masterful film to me and I think Kurosawa is like so amazing. I watched this, it felt like 50 times. It just all felt like a dance—like the camera is dancing but also like the actors are doing their own sort of choreography. I love the blocking of this movie and also Tsutomu Yamazaki, he has this moment of physicality at the end of the movie.”

“High and Low by Kurosawa. 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.”

“High and Low. I think this period for Kurosawa is my favorite. When he does the Cinemascope, wide-angle, like these amazing films with... The framing is incredible, like. I’m interested in not just, like, how camera is moving in films but in this case, like, the characters are moving. Incredible compositions done with, like, so much... It’s seemingly so effortless, but they must have been really hard to pull off. And yeah, it’s really one of my favorite Kurosawas.”

“This is an amazing movie stanley kubrick told me that when I was this age I should do a remake of this movie it's an Akira Kurosawa movie called High and Low with Toshiro Mifune and it's a story about a man who worked his way up from shoe factory making shoes to becoming an executive at the shoe company and then his child is kidnapped or so he thinks the kidnapper took the wrong child they kidnapped his butler his servant the person that works in his House they kidnapped the wrong child...”

“[Translated] I love High and Low the most. I was shocked when I first saw it, so I definitely want you to see it. I'm told I can take these home, so I'll take this one first.”