Theater video tags: Akira Kurosawa

Highest 2 Lowest

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Watch the trailer for Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, a reimagination of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film High and Low, which was loosely adapted from the 1959 novel King’s Ransom: An 87th Precinct Mystery by Ed McBain. The crime thriller film stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and A$AP Rocky.

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Living

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Living is a film directed by Oliver Hermanus with a screenplay by Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, which was inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Set in 1950s London, Bill Nighy plays a hardworking civil servant who reflects on his life while facing a fatal illness.

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