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

Denzel Washington plays a music mogul who faces a series of big moral choices in a film whose sensational third act justifies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is a modern reinterpretation of Kurosawa’s 1963 classic High and Low, which was itself based on the novel King’s Ransom by Ed McBain. While the original follows a shoe company ...

Highest 2 Lowest opens in theaters Friday, August 22, before streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday, September 5. This review is based on a screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Spike Lee can shift ...

Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest is his modern day New York City remake of the iconic 1963 Akira Kurosawa film High and Low, about the kidnapping of the son of a businessman (although it turns out to ...

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 ...