Japanese master Akira Kurosawa set the bar high with his 1963 take on a kidnapping that brings an ambitious businessman to his knees - which means, even in the hands of such a visionary director as ...

All 4K restorations for Kurosawa's films were made possible by Toho Co. Ltd, which released his original films. The only non ...

There’s enormous risk in remaking a movie like “High and Low.” Japanese master Akira Kurosawa set the ... of its running time, Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” glides along far better than ...

Lee was joined in the Cannes press conference by Wright and Ilfenesh Hadera, who plays King’s poised and skeptical wife Pam. Highest 2 Lowest marks Lee’s first collaboration with one-time muse ...

Spike Lee’s deliriously entertaining — if jarringly upbeat — “Highest 2 Lowest” modernizes the post-war anxieties of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low” for the age of parasocial ...

The reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s masterful 1963 police procedural about an abduction and ransom plot also stars Jeffrey Wright and A$AP Rocky. By David ...

Lee’s update on Akira Kurosawa’s film is an urban thriller that feels different than the work that has defined him Spike Lee has had a checkered history in Cannes, bringing down the house with “Do the ...

Titled like a sequel, plotted like a remake, and shot with enough of its own singular verve to ensure that most people never think of it as either of those things, Spike Lee’s deliriously entertaining ...