Tengoku to jigoku [videorecording] / Title on menu screen, disc label and container: High and low Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha ; Kurosawa Purodakushon ; seisaku Tanaka Tomoyuki, Kikushima Ryūzō ; kyakuhon Oguni Hideo ... [et al.] ; kantoku Kurosawa Akira. - [New York] : Criterion Collection, c1998. - 1 videodisc (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. - Criterion collection ; 24 . - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 24. .

Based on the novel King's ransom, by Ed McBain. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.

Photography, Asaichi Nakai, Takao Saito; music, Masaru Sato; subtitles, Captions Inc. Photography, Asaichi Nakai, Takao Saito; music, Masaru Sato; subtitles, Captions Inc.

Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi.

A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is mistaken for his own son and kidnapped for ransom.


DVD; NTSC; copy protected; original aspect ratio (2.35:1, letterboxed); Dolby digital; monaural.


Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.

0780021509 9780780021501

HIG050 Criterion Collection


Feature films--Japan.
Detective and mystery films--Japan.
Kidnapping--Drama.
Cine Japonés

CM DVD 01219