The Shadow's Edge
Action · Crime
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Film / 1963
High and Low
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
The story
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Cast
Toshirō MifuneKingo Gondo
Tatsuya NakadaiChief Detective Tokura
Kyōko KagawaReiko Gondo
Tatsuya MihashiKawanishi, Gondo's secretary
Isao KimuraDetective Arai
Kenjirō IshiyamaChief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
Takeshi KatōDetective Nakao
Takashi ShimuraChief of Investigation Section
Jun TazakiKamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director
Nobuo NakamuraIshimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Yūnosuke ItōBaba - National Shoes Executive
Tsutomu YamazakiGinjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
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Minoru ChiakiFirst Reporter
Eijirō TōnoFactory Worker
Masao ShimizuPrison Warden
Yutaka SadaAoki - the Chauffeur
Masahiko ShimazuShinichi Aoki
Toshio EgiJun Gondo
Kōji MitsuiSecond Reporter
Kyū SazankaFirst Creditor
Susumu FujitaChief of First Investigating Section
Kamatari FujiwaraJunkyard Cook
Yoshio TsuchiyaDetective Murata
Kazuo KitamuraThird Reporter
Gen ShimizuChief Physician
Akira NagoyaDetective Yamamoto
Jun HamamuraSecond Creditor
Masao OdaFirst Executor at Tax Office
Kō NishimuraThird Creditor
Yoshibumi TajimaChief Prison Officer
Koji KiyomuraFish Market Office Worker
Hiroshi UnayamaDetective Shimada
Yoshisuke MakinoDetective Takahashi
Jun KondôIdentification Center Worker
Tomo SuzukiDetective Koike
Senkichi ŌmuraMessenger Passing Note to Intern
Kazuo KatōIdentification Center Worker
Ikio SawamuraYokohama Station Trolley Man
Kin SugaiFemale Drug Addict
Keiko TomitaMurder Victim
Isao OnodaMale Drug Addict
Seiichi TaguchiDetective Nakamura
Takeo MatsushitaSecond Executor at Tax Office
Kiyoshi YamamotoDetective Ueno
Kenji KodamaDetective Hara
Minoru ItōDetective
Haruo SuzukiUndercover Detective 'Drug Addict'
Kōzō NomuraDetective (uncredited)
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