“Highest 2 Lowest” Teaser Poster
In 2013, noted filmmaker Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing) remade Park Chan-wook’s 2003 masterpiece, Old Boy. Now, the award-winning director is back with Highest 2 Lowest, a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 thriller, High and Low.
The original High and Low centered on an executive (Toshiro Mifune) of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
In the remake – now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City – a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington) is targeted with a ransom plot, and ends up jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
Highest 2 Lowest also stars A$AP Rocky, Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, Dean Winters, John Douglas Thompson and rapper Ice Spice.
A24 is releasing the film theatrically on August 22, 2025. Don’t miss the Trailer below:
Correction: Old Boy was remade in 2013, not 2023.
Nick, cheers. Fixed =)