‘Highest 2 Lowest' Review: Spike Lee's Spin on Kurosawa
That Japanese classic, a dogged procedural and a troubling drama of the tensions between rich and poor, was released in 1963. Mr. Lee has updated it to modern-day New York and called the involving if uneven result 'Highest 2 Lowest,' the original title stretched to extremes befitting a city where supertall apartment buildings seem to spring eternal. And as Kurosawa worked with his great star, Toshiro Mifune, so has Mr. Lee reunited with his, Denzel Washington, playing the music mogul David King.
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