at Toho Studios and on location in Yokohama. The film includes stock music from The H-Man (1958). Kurosawa included cameos by many of his popular stock performers, making its star-studded cast one of the film's best-remembered highlights. The film foregrounds the modern infrastructure of the economic miracle years and the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, including rapid rail lines and the proliferation of personal automobiles. Release High and Low was released in Japan on 1 March 1963. The film was released by Toho International with English subtitles in the United States on 26 November 1963. Reception The Washington Post wrote that "High and Low is, in a way, the companion piece to Throne of Blood – it's Macbeth, if Macbeth had married better. The movie shares the rigors of Shakespeare's construction, the symbolic and historical sweep, the pacing that makes the story expand organically in the mind". Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic after asking why Kurosawa wanted to make High and Low, wrote "To say all this is not, I hope, to discourage the reader from seeing this film. Very much the reverse. Two hours and twenty three minutes of fine entertainment are not a commonplace achievement. Also, from the opening frame (literally) to the last, Kurosawa never makes the smallest misstep nor permits it in anyone else". Martin Scorsese included it on a list of "39 Essential Foreign Films for a Young Filmmaker." On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, High and Low has an approval rating of 95% based on 21 reviews, with an average score of 8/10. In 2009 the film was voted at No. 13 on the list of The Greatest Japanese Films of All Time by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo. References Bibliography External links High and Low at the Japanese Movie Database High and Low an essay by Chuck Stephens at the Criterion Collection High and Low: Between Heaven and Hell an essay by Geoffrey O'Brien at the Criterion Collection 1963 films 1963 crime drama films Japanese crime drama films 1960s Japanese-language films Police detective films 1960s police procedural films Japanese black-and-white films Films directed by Akira Kurosawa Toho films Films set in Yokohama Films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa Films with screenplays by Hideo Oguni Films with screenplays by Ryuzo Kikushima Films produced by Ryuzo Kikushima Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Films scored by Masaru Sato Films based on novels by