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title: "High and Low: cast and crew"
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cast: 48
crew: 32
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# High and Low (1963): cast and crew

48 cast and 32 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Toshirō Mifune](https://film.one/person/toshiro-mifune.md) as Kingo Gondo
- [Tatsuya Nakadai](https://film.one/person/tatsuya-nakadai.md) as Chief Detective Tokura
- [Kyōko Kagawa](https://film.one/person/kyoko-kagawa.md) as Reiko Gondo
- [Tatsuya Mihashi](https://film.one/person/tatsuya-mihashi.md) as Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary
- [Isao Kimura](https://film.one/person/isao-kimura.md) as Detective Arai
- [Kenjirō Ishiyama](https://film.one/person/kenjiro-ishiyama.md) as Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
- [Takeshi Katō](https://film.one/person/takeshi-kato.md) as Detective Nakao
- [Takashi Shimura](https://film.one/person/takashi-shimura.md) as Chief of Investigation Section
- [Jun Tazaki](https://film.one/person/jun-tazaki.md) as Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director
- [Nobuo Nakamura](https://film.one/person/nobuo-nakamura.md) as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
- [Yūnosuke Itō](https://film.one/person/yunosuke-ito.md) as Baba - National Shoes Executive
- [Tsutomu Yamazaki](https://film.one/person/tsutomu-yamazaki.md) as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
- [Minoru Chiaki](https://film.one/person/minoru-chiaki.md) as First Reporter
- [Eijirō Tōno](https://film.one/person/eijiro-tono.md) as Factory Worker
- [Masao Shimizu](https://film.one/person/masao-shimizu.md) as Prison Warden
- Yutaka Sada as Aoki - the Chauffeur
- Masahiko Shimazu as Shinichi Aoki
- Toshio Egi as Jun Gondo
- Kōji Mitsui as Second Reporter
- Kyū Sazanka as First Creditor
- Susumu Fujita as Chief of First Investigating Section
- [Kamatari Fujiwara](https://film.one/person/kamatari-fujiwara.md) as Junkyard Cook
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as Detective Murata
- Kazuo Kitamura as Third Reporter
- Gen Shimizu as Chief Physician
- Akira Nagoya as Detective Yamamoto
- Jun Hamamura as Second Creditor
- Masao Oda as First Executor at Tax Office
- Kō Nishimura as Third Creditor
- Yoshibumi Tajima as Chief Prison Officer
- Koji Kiyomura as Fish Market Office Worker
- Hiroshi Unayama as Detective Shimada
- Yoshisuke Makino as Detective Takahashi
- Jun Kondô as Identification Center Worker
- Tomo Suzuki as Detective Koike
- Senkichi Ōmura as Messenger Passing Note to Intern
- [Kazuo Katō](https://film.one/person/kazuo-kato.md) as Identification Center Worker
- [Ikio Sawamura](https://film.one/person/ikio-sawamura.md) as Yokohama Station Trolley Man
- Kin Sugai as Female Drug Addict
- Keiko Tomita as Murder Victim
- Isao Onoda as Male Drug Addict
- Seiichi Taguchi as Detective Nakamura
- Takeo Matsushita as Second Executor at Tax Office
- Kiyoshi Yamamoto as Detective Ueno
- Kenji Kodama as Detective Hara
- Minoru Itō as Detective
- Haruo Suzuki as Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict'
- Kōzō Nomura as Detective (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Akira Kurosawa](https://film.one/person/akira-kurosawa.md): Director
- Kenjirô Ohmori: Assistant Director
- Yōichi Matsue: Assistant Director
- Teruyo Nogami: Script Supervisor
- Shirō Moritani: Assistant Director
- Masanobu Deme: Assistant Director

## Writing

- [Akira Kurosawa](https://film.one/person/akira-kurosawa.md): Screenplay
- [Ryuzo Kikushima](https://film.one/person/ryuzo-kikushima.md): Screenplay
- [Evan Hunter](https://film.one/person/evan-hunter.md): Novel
- [Hideo Oguni](https://film.one/person/hideo-oguni.md): Screenplay
- [Eijiro Hisaita](https://film.one/person/eijiro-hisaita.md): Screenplay

## Production

- [Ryuzo Kikushima](https://film.one/person/ryuzo-kikushima.md): Producer
- [Tomoyuki Tanaka](https://film.one/person/tomoyuki-tanaka.md): Producer
- Hiroshi Nezu: Production Supervisor
- [Akira Kurosawa](https://film.one/person/akira-kurosawa.md): Associate Producer

## Camera

- [Asakazu Nakai](https://film.one/person/asakazu-nakai.md): Director of Photography
- [Takao Saitō](https://film.one/person/takao-saito.md): Director of Photography
- Kazutami Hara: First Assistant Camera
- Yudai Kato: Camera Intern
- Masaharu Ueda: Assistant Camera

## Editing

- Reiko Kaneko: Editorial Production Assistant
- [Akira Kurosawa](https://film.one/person/akira-kurosawa.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Masaru Satō](https://film.one/person/masaru-sato.md): Original Music Composer
- Hisashi Shimonaga: Sound Mixer
- Ichirô Minawa: Sound Effects Editor
- Fumio Yanoguchi: Sound Designer

## Art

- [Yoshirō Muraki](https://film.one/person/yoshiro-muraki.md): Production Design

## Costume and make-up

- [Miyuki Suzuki](https://film.one/person/miyuki-suzuki.md): Costume Design

## Lighting

- Hiromitsu Mori: Lighting Technician
- Ichirō Inohara: Lighting Technician

## Crew

- Akio Nojima: Property Master
- Sompote Sands: Intern

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