Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
**Screenwriters**: Eijirô Hisaita, Ryûzô Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni from the novel *King’s Ransom* by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter) **Producers**: Ryûzô Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka Master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, best known for his sweeping samurai epics, takes on the modern crime thriller with stylish composition and expert pacing for one riveting cinema experience. Toshirō Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in *High and Low* (*Tengoku to jigoku*), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel *King’s Ransom*, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on contemporary Japanese society. And join us in the microcinema from September 5th – 10th to see Spike Lee’s new reinterpretation of this Japanese cinema classic in [*Highest 2 Lowest*](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/highest-2-lowest/). **Accessibility Options**: Open Captions, Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.