The highs and lows of the Arkansas Times film seriesTuesday, August 19. Riverdale 10 VIP Theater. 7 p.m. $12–$14.
In Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film High and Low, we first meet Kingo Gondo, a Japanese businessman portrayed by Toshiro Mifune. He has just closed the deal of his life, obtaining enough stock to hold a majority ownership in the shoe firm where he works as an executive. But as soon as he tells his wife and right-hand guy, he gets a call from someone who says they have taken his son, Jun. The culprit is demanding a 30 million yen ransom. Shortly after, it was discovered that they had abducted the wrong youngster. Gondo is caught between the demands of his wife and Shinichi’s father, who both implore him to pay the ransom, and the knowledge that doing so would put him in financial ruin after learning that they had taken Shinichi, his driver’s kid. Tickets are available atriverdale10.com.
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