High and Low [Tengoku to Jigoku] (Original screenplay for the 1963 film)
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- Tokyo: Toho / Kurosawa Productions, 1962
Tokyo: Toho / Kurosawa Productions, 1962. Draft script for the 1963 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese.
A legendary Japanese noir, based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son, and are holding him hostage in exchange for an enormous ransom. The industrialist soon realizes, however, that the boy they have taken is in fact the son of his chauffeur—and must decide whether he will bankrupt himself and his family in order to save a child that is not his own. A nuanced portrait of a man facing the potential destruction of his future, further elevated by morally ambiguous characters and the gritty realism of its world. The fifteenth, and penultimate, film that leading actor Toshiro Mifune would make with director Akira Kurosawa, and one of the highest grossing Japanese films of 1963, breaking Kurosawa's box office record for the third time.
Shot on location in Kanagawa, Japan.
White titled perfect-bound wrappers, dated 1962, with a protective titled dust jacket. Approximately 94 leaves, with last page of text numbered e-37. Mimeograph duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, with light foxing on the top and bottom page edges. Jacket Very Good, with moderate foxing on the extremities.
Criterion Collection 24. Grant Japan. Selby Japan. Spicer Japan.
A legendary Japanese noir, based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son, and are holding him hostage in exchange for an enormous ransom. The industrialist soon realizes, however, that the boy they have taken is in fact the son of his chauffeur—and must decide whether he will bankrupt himself and his family in order to save a child that is not his own. A nuanced portrait of a man facing the potential destruction of his future, further elevated by morally ambiguous characters and the gritty realism of its world. The fifteenth, and penultimate, film that leading actor Toshiro Mifune would make with director Akira Kurosawa, and one of the highest grossing Japanese films of 1963, breaking Kurosawa's box office record for the third time.
Shot on location in Kanagawa, Japan.
White titled perfect-bound wrappers, dated 1962, with a protective titled dust jacket. Approximately 94 leaves, with last page of text numbered e-37. Mimeograph duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, with light foxing on the top and bottom page edges. Jacket Very Good, with moderate foxing on the extremities.
Criterion Collection 24. Grant Japan. Selby Japan. Spicer Japan.