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High&Low	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Tengoku to Jigoku (English Title: High and Lownote The Japanese title literally means "Heaven and Hell") is a 1963 film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai, based on King's Ransom, an 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain.Kingo Gondo (Mifune) is a wealthy executive (the factory manager) for National Shoes. He's caught in a power struggle between a trio of directors who want to wrest control from the company's president, and the autocratic president himself. Behind the scenes, he's arranged a leveraged buyout that will give him control of the company so that he can run it his way. Just as he's committed himself to this course of action, mortgaging everything he has, Gondo is informed that his child Jun has been kidnapped, and the kidnapper demands a ludicrously high ransom.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Gondo is prepared to pay even if it ruins him, but then learns that his son is safe. Instead, the kidnapper has accidentally taken Shinichi, the son of Gondo's chauffeur. Gondo must now struggle with the moral dilemma of either bankrupting himself for another man's child...or letting the child die at the hands of the kidnapper.While Gondo suffers from this dilemma, and the results of his decision, the police, led by Chief Detective Tokura (Nakadai) attempt to match wits with the kidnapper and bring him to justice.Do not confuse with the High&Low franchise by EXILE TRIBE, also Japanese made.
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High&Low / int_1ee9819e	type	Scary Shiny Glasses
High&Low / int_1ee9819e	comment	Scary Shiny Glasses: The kidnapper's sunglasses always manage to have bright light reflecting in them.
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High&Low / int_379dcdf2	type	Cowboys and Indians
High&Low / int_379dcdf2	comment	Cowboys and Indians: Jun and Shinichi play "Sheriff and Outlaw", then switch roles and outfits; this leads to the wrong boy being kidnapped.
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High&Low / int_3e353a08	type	Accidental Kidnapping
High&Low / int_3e353a08	comment	Accidental Kidnapping: The kidnapper gets confused and winds up taking the chauffeur's son instead of Gondo's.
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High&Low / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
High&Low / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: The kidnapper uses as his partners in crime two heroin junkies. He then murders them with heroin overdoses by deliberately giving them 95% pure heroin.
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High&Low / int_40f3b23a	type	FilmOfTheBook
High&Low / int_40f3b23a	comment	Film of the Book: Based on the novel King's Ransom by Ed McBain (pen name of Evan Hunter).
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High&Low / int_46118dc5	type	Adult Fear
High&Low / int_46118dc5	comment	Adult Fear: Your child being kidnapped? Check. Financial ruin? Double check.
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High&Low / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
High&Low / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Gondo's large modern house with the amazing view at the top of the hill ("High") overlooking the city ("Low"). The first half is set entirely within that house.
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High&Low / int_4f7c3890	type	Shoddy Knockoff Product
High&Low / int_4f7c3890	comment	Shoddy Knockoff Product: At the beginning of the movie, Gondo is being pressured into making crappier, cheaper and absolutely flimsy shoes at the National Shoe to drive up profits. He doesn't warm up to the idea at all.
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High&Low / int_7a555627	type	Honest Corporate Executive
High&Low / int_7a555627	comment	Honest Corporate Executive: Gondo, while engaging in some sneaky dealings, wants to produce good quality and stylish shoes at a reasonable price as this will produce more profits in the long run. His own employees note that while Gondo might be stern and even a stickler, he was always fair and respectful and never asked them to do stuff he wouldn't do. The dilemma for Gondo in the first half, when the kidnapper took the wrong kid Shinichi, is whether he is willing to sacrifice his life savings and fortune for someone who is not his own child, and indeed the son of one of his servant's. Gondo ultimately does do the moral thing but he hesitated for a long time because he really did have a lot at stake and the police are moved by his moral gesture, with one cop noting that it's almost enough to change his opinion about businessmen, at least until Gondo's bosses prove how exceptional and rare a thing this is.
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High&Low / int_85537320	type	Police Procedural
High&Low / int_85537320	comment	Police Procedural: Particularly in the second part of the film.
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High&Low / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
High&Low / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: The cops in Yokohama have a large map of the city that they use in an effort to puzzle out where the kidnapper called from.
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High&Low / int_8ce55ec6	type	Ransom Drop
High&Low / int_8ce55ec6	comment	Ransom Drop: From a train per the kidnapper's meticulous instructions.
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High&Low / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
High&Low / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: The kidnapper breaks down sobbing and tries to swallow a heroin overdose when he is finally caught. And his brave front when he faces Gendo winds up dissolving into hysterical screaming.
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High&Low / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
High&Low / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Ginjiro Takeuchi, the mastermind of Shinichi's kidnapping.
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High&Low / int_9b54d536	type	EvilCounterpart
High&Low / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: The kidnapper to Gondo, as both have backgrounds from the urban slums, and from which Gondo worked his way up from the bottom to reach the professional class, while the kidnapper might have had a chance to potentially work to becoming a medical professional, but threw away his life committing the crimes.
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High&Low / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
High&Low / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The kidnapper believes that he's striking a deserved blow against an uppity, privileged rich man who has always looked down (literally even) on the poor of the slum district below. Except that Gondo himself came up from those same slums.
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High&Low / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
High&Low / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Gondo's youth as a cobbler's apprentice comes in handy when the police need to hide something in briefcases.
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High&Low / int_aec19d54	type	Hyperlink Story
High&Low / int_aec19d54	comment	Hyperlink Story: The second half of the film is a drama without main characters largely following the cops as they investigate the kidnapper, it also switches by following the kidnapper, a brief episode where Shinichi's father tries to act like a hero and investigate on his own, and showing the fallout of the media publicity of Gondo's actions. The height of this is when the cops in the middle of their investigation see Gondo, who's been absent from the action for sometime, just run into the man who he doesn't know is the kidnappers. The cops can't believe the bizarre incident and unknown connection they are seeing.
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High&Low / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
High&Low / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Gondo's secretary Kawanishi defects to the side of the directors; he tries to disguise this as a Heel–Face Turn, but Gondo easily sees through it.
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High&Low / int_b3f77675	type	Grass Is Greener
High&Low / int_b3f77675	comment	Grass Is Greener: Why the kidnapper did what he did. He was a poor medical student who lived in a hovel gazing up at Gondo's fancy house at the top of the hill and directed all his rage towards him, seeing him as a symbol and representative of the class structure.
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High&Low / int_b7b0c10d	type	Phone-Trace Race
High&Low / int_b7b0c10d	comment	Phone-Trace Race: Police trying to trace the phone calls.
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High&Low / int_b9fd7929	type	MoralityChain
High&Low / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Gondo's wife Reiko, at first, and later his son Jun.
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High&Low / int_bbb3a5a0	type	Splash of Color
High&Low / int_bbb3a5a0	comment	Splash of Color: A plume of pink smoke when the kidnapper disposes of evidence appears in color.
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High&Low / int_c3a57274	type	True Craftsman
High&Low / int_c3a57274	comment	True Craftsman: Gondo cares about making quality shoes, and takes offense when more ethically challenged executives at National Shoes suggest making a deliberately shoddy product.
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High&Low / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
High&Low / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: It's hinted that the kidnapper's life has been hellish, including whatever gave him that nasty scar. But he decides not to tell Gondo about it, apparently because he doesn't want to be pitied, which of course begs the question as to why he's even telling Gondo about it.
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High&Low / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
High&Low / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The three directors want to take over National Shoes so that they can make gaudy but shoddy products at a high profit, assuming their customers will be easily fooled by advertising. The "Old Man", who is never seen, does not appear to be corrupt, but is autocratic and behind the times.
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High&Low / int_d3427b48	type	YamatoNadeshiko
High&Low / int_d3427b48	comment	Yamato Nadeshiko: Reiko
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High&Low / int_de2ee4e8	type	Two-Act Structure
High&Low / int_de2ee4e8	comment	Two-Act Structure: The first half of the film involves the kidnapping and Ransom Drop, which is complicated by Gondo's planned takeover of National Shoes and his reluctance to expose himself to complete financial ruin. The second half of the movie largely leaves Gondo behind and follows the meticulous police investigation that eventually tracks down the kidnapper. Kurosawa emphasizes this by the fact that the first act is entirely set inside the confines of the house, while the second half is set across the city's lower-depths, with the scene where Gondo makes the drop in the train the bridge of the story. The film is divided between "high" and "low".
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High&Low / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
High&Low / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Gondo worked his way up from cobbler's apprentice to the position he now occupies, though his marriage to Reiko did give him much more wealth to work with. (And note that this kind of upward social mobility would have been extremely rare in Japan at the time, making Gondo's moral dilemma even more harrowing.) The fact that he was a leather worker implies that he was not simply poor, but a Burakumin, making his success even more extraordinary.
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High&Low / int_f64a9cf7	type	EarnYourHappyEnding
High&Low / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Gondo's plan to take over National Shoes fails, and he loses all his possessions when his creditors call in his loan. But he gets the cash back when the kidnapper is finally caught, and he gets a chance to start over again with a smaller but better shoe company.
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