Akira Kurosawa's legacy is getting the 4K treatment with a massive U.S. festival. Film Forum in New York City will be hosting a special retrospective to honor the late auteur, including the U.S.

‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Spike Lee’s Kurosawa-Inspired Kidnapping Drama Isn’t So Much a Remake as a Manifesto Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Out of Competition), May 14, 2025. Running ...

The first teaser trailer for the crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest — the new creation of Oscar-winning director Spike Lee and screenwriter William Alan Fox, which reimagines Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 police ...

Loosely inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low—itself an adaptation of Ed McBain’s The King’s Ransom—Highest 2 Lowest reimagines the moral dilemma at the center of the story through a ...

“Highest 2 Lowest” premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. A24 will release it in theaters on Friday, August 22, and it will be available to stream on Apple TV starting Friday, September 5.

There’s enormous risk in remaking a movie like “High and Low.” Japanese master Akira Kurosawa set the bar high with his 1963 take on a kidnapping that brings an ambitious businessman to his ...

Spike Lee can shift tones mid-movie like few other directors – and in Highest 2 Lowest, he swings that pendulum as hard as he possibly can. Based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime drama High and ...

Denzel Washington pontificates on what actually matters in life in the new teaser for Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, which is loosely based on the 1963 Akira Kurosawa classic, High and Low.. The ...

There’s enormous risk in remaking a movie like “High and Low.” Japanese master Akira Kurosawa set the bar high with his 1963 take on a kidnapping that brings an ambitious businessman to his ...

Highest 2 Lowest is a “reinterpretation,” per Lee’s own words, of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural High and Low.Washington plays a music mogul who becomes the target of a ransom ...

Highest 2 Lowest, a New York City-set reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low, stars Washington as a powerful music industry exec, known for having the “best ears in ...