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When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business,” is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Longtime collaborators Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for their fifth film together with this reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s iconic 1963 crime thriller HIGH AND LOW — coming soon to the AFI Silver in a new 4K restoration — now played out on the mean streets of modern-day New York City. DIR Spike Lee; SCR Alan Fox, from the 1963 film HIGH AND LOW, screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Jideo Oguni, Ryūzō Kikushima and Eijirō Hisaita, based on the novel “King’s Ransom” by Evan Hunter; PROD Jason Michael Berman, Todd Black. U.S., 2025, color, 133 min. RATED R

Run Time: 133 Minutes

Opening Date: Friday, August 15, 2025

Genre: Crime, drama, thriller

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