High and Low Comments

  • Junius 2022-01-09 08:01:17

    Akira Kurosawa's genre mix and match. The first act is a business war movie, the second act is a detective detective movie, and the third act is a police chase movie. The hidden line is the difference between the appearance and class of Japanese society. As the title suggests, the rich are in heaven and the poor are in hell. Attempts to reverse this situation through crime are doomed to fail. The narrative is methodical and relaxed, the train scene is quite Hitchcock, and the tracking scene and...

Extended Reading
  • Adolf 2022-01-09 08:01:17

    Watching movies

    It's so exciting, so beautiful! Kurosawa is worthy of being one of the world's four major film directors! All types of movies can be perfectly controlled.

    This crime reasoning film is great, the logic is meticulous and there is no flaw, and the criminal complaint at the end sublimates the idea of...

  • Genoveva 2022-03-21 09:02:38

    Akira Kurosawa's best film set in today's society

    Some of Kurosawa's more famous films are costume films, such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Spider Sparrow City, but his non-costume films are rarely seen. Heaven and Hell is one of the classics. It tells the story of the kidnapping of the son of a rich businessman's driver, but the rich businessman...

High and Low quotes

  • Chief Detective Tokura: For Mr. Gondo's sake, be bloodhounds!

  • [last lines]

    Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern: You think I'm shaking out of fear, but I'm not! It's just the physiological reaction from being in solitary too long. Just leaving the cell makes me shake. I'm not afraid of death. I don't care if I go to hell. My life has been hell since the day I was born.

    [laughs]

    Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern: But if I had to go to heaven, then I'd really start to tremble.

    [laughs]