Based on an Ed McBain novel, High and Low is a gripping police thriller starring Toshiro Mifune. Wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo (Mifune) faces an agonising choice when a ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch his young son, takes the chauffeurs boy by mistakebut still demands the ransom, leaving Gondo facing ruin if he pays up.An anatomy of the inequalities in modern Japanese society, High and Low is a complex film noir, where the intense police hunt for the kidnapper is accompanied by penetrating insight into the kidnappers state of mind. Kurosawas virtuoso direction provides no easy answers, and in short, the police and the criminal as equally brutal, but nonetheless human.ExtrasPresented in High DefinitionNewly recorded audio commentary by Japanese film expert Jasper SharpAkira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to CreateHigh and Low (2002, 38 mins): the director discusses how High and Low came to exist, and how specific sequences were filmed. Also features interviews with ac