So proclaims Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s new film, Highest 2 Lowest, where Washington portrays a hip hop mogul, David King, who finds himself the centre of a high-profile kidnapping case. Highest ...

"Throne of Blood" and "Ikiru" are also among the classic features having their 4K U.S. premieres. Akira Kurosawa‘s legacy is getting the 4K treatment with a massive U.S. festival. Film Forum in New ...

When it comes to the greatest artists in the history of cinema, Akira Kurosawa will always be right at the top of the list. The Japanese auteur made movies for decades that had a huge impact on the ...

When we first meet Kingo Gondo, a Japanese businessman played by Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film “High and Low,” he’s just completed the deal of his life, finally securing enough stock to ...

The Highest 2 Lowest reviews are beginning to pour in after the film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, with many praising Spike Lee’s adaptation starring Denzel Washington and ASAP Rocky. What ...

Despite the German Expressionist influence on the genre, the roots of film noir are undoubtedly American — a morally introspective and nationally cynical mirror to the traditional western. As a whole, ...

In the new Spike Lee film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Denzel Washington stars as music mogul David King. He lives at the top of the world — which, of course, is a New York City zip code — in a glittering ...

The following contains spoilers for Highest 2 LowestHighest 2 Lowest takes some creative liberties in updating the plot of High and Low for the 21st century, making some key changes to the characters, ...

Credits: Directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki. Rating/Runtime: Not rated. 143 minutes. Streaming on various services.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival) Spike Lee recently opened up about his upcoming ...