Ep. 96 High And Low

"I do know my room was so cold in winter and so hot in summer I
couldn't sleep. Your house looked like heaven, high up there.
That's how I began to hate you." On this episode hosts Christopher
Funderburg and John Cribbs discuss the namesake of this very site,
Akira Kurosawa's intense crime masterpiece High and Low! A
long-standing favorite of the Pink Smoke, its founders are
always excited to dig into this thriller about the harrowing moral
decisions forced into play by a botched kidnapping. The film's
unique structure moves from a single-set drama about corporate
back-stabbing to an expansive police procedural that winds its way
through every level of Tokyo and, consequently, shifts its focus
from Toshiro Mifune as an executive under pressure to Tatsuya
Nakadai as the detective chasing down every lead. Brilliant from
start to finish, there's a case to be made that High and
Low represents the culmination of the finest era in the
Japanese master's body of work. Support our Patreon:

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twitter.com/cfunderburg Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea
for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"