Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are teaming up for the fifth time, reimagining Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime drama High and Low.
The pair, whose previous projects include Malcolm X and He Got Game, will start filming a reinterpretation in March. Based on the novel King’s Ransom by Ed McBain, the original film stars Toshiro Mifune as a wealthy man in ruin after paying the ransom for a kidnapping.
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Lee has previously spoken about his admiration for Kurosawa, claiming that his 1986 comedy She’s Gotta Have It was influenced by Rashomon. When asked about career longevity last year, Lee said: “Kurosawa was 86! I got to at least get to Kurosawa.”
Yeesh, why remake Kurosawa. That’s like remaking Hitchcock or Bergman.
No, that’s like Hitchcock remaking Bergman or Kurosawa. Or Kurosawa remaking HItchcock or Bergman. Or Bergman…
Sure but I don’t much want that to happen either.
I mean, I’d be interested in seeing the Hitchcock take on a Kurosawa movie… It’d be interesting if nothing else