- Film
La Petite Dernière
Multiple dates
Country
Japan
Year
1963
Language
Japanese spoken, Dutch subtitles
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Duration
143 min
Highly influential domestic drama and compelling crime film by Akira Kurosawa, which raises questions about honor, loyalty, and human moral responsibility.
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family is targeted by a cold-blooded kidnapper. High and Low is a highly influential domestic drama and gripping crime film based on Ed McBain's pulp novel. Wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) has scraped together money to acquire a majority stake in the shoe company where he has worked for most of his life.
His plans are threatened by the kidnapping of his son's playmate - a mistake, because the kidnapper actually had his son in mind. Paying the ransom would mean Gondo's financial ruin. The dark film cemented Kurosawa's international fame and was highly influential. To this day: this summer Spike Lee's adaptation Highest 2 Lowest will be released, starring Denzel Washington in the role played by Kurosawa's regular actor Toshiro Mifune in the original.
Wednesday 30 September
6:30 PM - 9:03 PM
€ 13.00
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Never before has money seemed so prominently present in our daily lives. From sky-high housing costs and growing wealth inequality to the power of financial markets: money increasingly determines who gets opportunities, who is left behind, and how much a human life seems to be worth. Yet the subject has occupied filmmakers for more than a century. In Show Me The Money!, we bring together eleven films that explore the many faces of money.
