For his latest film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee has turned to one of his influences, and one of cinema’s most iconic ...

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It takes a gutsy filmmaker to attempt to remake a classic, and Spike Lee certainly aimed for the sky with Highest 2 Lowest.

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That said, Mifune made a number of films with Kurosawa that weren’t Jidaigeki, such as Stray Dog, Drunken Angel, and yes, High and Low. Of these films, I find the latter the most interesting.

Before Highest 2 Lowest, check out Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, which inspired Denzel Washington and Spike Lee’s latest.

Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film “High and Low” — “one of the best detective thrillers ever filmed,” according to The New York ...