Before Highest 2 Lowest, check out Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, which inspired Denzel Washington and Spike Lee’s latest.

It takes a gutsy filmmaker to attempt to remake a classic, and Spike Lee certainly aimed for the sky with Highest 2 Lowest.

However, even if you watch the more popular Kurosawa movies, like Rashomon, Kagemusha, and Seven Samurai, you might not be ...

With 'Highest 2 Lowest,' Spike Lee joins Martin Scorsese, Bong Joon-ho, and Steven Soderbergh as a scholar of Akira Kurosawa's 'High and Low.' ...

Japanese directing legend Akira Kurosawa risked falling out with the whole industry in order to make sure Mifune made it ...

I came away more disappointed than enchanted by “Highest 2 Lowest,” IR movie reviewer Brent Northup says. "I had set the bar ...

Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, and a 1962 episode of the American TV show 87th Precinct all ...

Denzel Washington stars in the director’s New York kidnapping drama, inspired by the 1963 classic ‘High and Low.’ ...

Director Spike Lee talks about his new film 'Highest 2 Lowest, working with Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky, and more.

Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the first time in 20 years with ‘Highest 2 Lowest,’ a loose, jazzy update of a Japanese cinema classic.

In choosing to adapt Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, Spike Lee set the bar for himself formidably high. That 1963 thriller is ...

The film, based on Akira Kurosawa's 1963 movie 'High and Low,' is often audacious but also has moments that don't work.