High and Low | 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (Criterion)
On September 9, 2025, Criterion is releasing the 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray for High and Low, a 1963 thriller from acclaimed filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (Ran, Stray Dog, Seven Samurai)
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low, the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa.
Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society.
Features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- Documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
- Interviews with actors Toshiro Mifune and Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Trailers and teaser
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an on-set account by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richi
- Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Watch the film’s Trailer below:
