Movie · 1963
High and Low
“Stark, intense drama almost beyond belief!”
Released 1 March 1963 142 min Drama / Crime / Thriller More from 1963 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
FR·01
How old were they?
Kenjirō Ishiyama
as Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
Kamatari Fujiwara
as Junkyard Cook
Takashi Shimura
as Chief of Investigation Section
Jun Hamamura
as Second Creditor
Ikio Sawamura
as Yokohama Station Trolley Man
Nobuo Nakamura
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Kōji Mitsui
as Second Reporter
Jun Tazaki
as Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director
Yoshibumi Tajima
as Chief Prison Officer
Yūnosuke Itō
as Baba - National Shoes Executive
Toshirō Mifune
as Kingo Gondo
Tatsuya Mihashi
as Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary
Isao Kimura
as Detective Arai
Yoshio Tsuchiya
as Detective Murata
Takeshi Katō
as Detective Nakao
Akira Nagoya
as Detective Yamamoto
Kyōko Kagawa
as Reiko Gondo
Tatsuya Nakadai
as Chief Detective Tokura
Tsutomu Yamazaki
as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
Keiko Tomita
as Murder Victim
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The numbers
33years between the oldest and youngest billed
59Kenjirō Ishiyama — oldest on the call sheet
26Keiko Tomita — youngest billed
43average age of the credited cast