Japanese directing legend Akira Kurosawa risked falling out with the whole industry in order to make sure Mifune made it ...

For his latest film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee has turned to one of his influences, and one of cinema’s most iconic ...

It takes a gutsy filmmaker to attempt to remake a classic, and Spike Lee certainly aimed for the sky with Highest 2 Lowest.

Before Highest 2 Lowest, check out Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, which inspired Denzel Washington and Spike Lee’s latest.

However, even if you watch the more popular Kurosawa movies, like Rashomon, Kagemusha, and Seven Samurai, you might not be ...

Akira Kurosawa's High and Low explores the moral dilemma of choosing another life over one's own, rather than the usual path of vengeance seen in crime stories. The film injects tension into ...

Denzel Washington, Spike Lee Reteam for Adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’ Apple and A24 are backing the feature, which will go into production in March.

Lee will direct Washington in “High and Low,” an English-language adaptation of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa crime film of the same name, for Apple Original Films, which is working in partnership ...

High and Low will also mark Lee’s second high-profile remake after his 2013 feature Oldboy. With production beginning this spring, a theatrical release has also been confirmed––which we imagine will ...

Akira Kurosawa, 1960. Via Wikimedia Commons Less well known, though held dear by Kurosawa-philes, is “High and Low,” a police procedural based on Ed McBain’s 1957 novel, “King’s Ransom.” Kingo Gondo ...