Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Akira Kurosawa
What could have been! High and Low starts out with an excellent premise and is both well-acted and well-shot. After the first hour, I had it ranked in the pantheon with all the other Kurosawa films, marveling at his range - this is, after all, not a historical epic. The second half of the film is almost something else entirely, and while it's still interesting, it is much more uneven. Premises set up in the first half are not really paid off in the second, and the stakes go way down. Still, it's almost fun to see Kurosawa direct a botched, imperfect film - he manages to comes up with some fascinating shots.
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