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Akira Kurosawa: Hard Boiled

Two crime masterpieces starring Kurosawa mainstays Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura—High and Low and Stray Dog—now in stunning 4K restorations.

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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 contemporary Japanese society.

See Spike Lee's reimagining of Kurosawa's High and Low with Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington. Now playing at The Main Cinema.