High and Low

Stark, intense drama almost beyond belief!

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

Toshirō Mifune

Tatsuya Nakadai

(Chief Detective Tokura)

Kyōko Kagawa

Tatsuya Mihashi

(Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary)

Isao Kimura

(Detective Arai)

Kenjirō Ishiyama

(Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi)

Takeshi Katō

(Detective Nakao)

Takashi Shimura

(Chief of Investigation Section)

Jun Tazaki

(Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director)

Nobuo Nakamura

(Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director)

Yūnosuke Itō

(Baba - National Shoes Executive)

Tsutomu Yamazaki

(Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern)

Minoru Chiaki

(First Reporter)

Eijirō Tōno

(Factory Worker)

Masao Shimizu

(Prison Warden)

Yutaka Sada

(Aoki - the Chauffeur)

Masahiko Shimazu

(Shinichi Aoki)

Toshio Egi

Kōji Mitsui

(Second Reporter)

Kyū Sazanka

(First Creditor)

Susumu Fujita

(Chief of First Investigating Section)

Kamatari Fujiwara

(Junkyard Cook)

Yoshio Tsuchiya

(Detective Murata)

Kazuo Kitamura

(Third Reporter)

Gen Shimizu

(Chief Physician)

Akira Nagoya

(Detective Yamamoto)

Jun Hamamura

(Second Creditor)

Masao Oda

(First Executor at Tax Office)

Kō Nishimura

(Third Creditor)

Yoshibumi Tajima

(Chief Prison Officer)

Koji Kiyomura

(Fish Market Office Worker)

Hiroshi Unayama

(Detective Shimada)

Yoshisuke Makino

(Detective Takahashi)

Jun Kondô

(Identification Center Worker)

Tomo Suzuki

(Detective Koike)

Senkichi Ōmura

(Messenger Passing Note to Intern)

Kazuo Katō

(Identification Center Worker)

Ikio Sawamura

(Yokohama Station Trolley Man)

Kin Sugai

(Female Drug Addict)

Keiko Tomita

(Murder Victim)

Isao Onoda

(Male Drug Addict)

Seiichi Taguchi

(Detective Nakamura)

Takeo Matsushita

(Second Executor at Tax Office)

Kiyoshi Yamamoto

(Detective Ueno)

Kenji Kodama

(Detective Hara)

Minoru Itō

Haruo Suzuki

(Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict')

Kōzō Nomura

(Detective (uncredited))