Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You expect a measure (or three) of idiosyncrasy from a Spike Lee movie; few major filmmakers follow their muse with such ornery ...

But this isn’t a Kurosawa film, so don’t go looking for one. What Highest 2 Lowest is not, is a Kurosawa film. It’s a warm, nerdy, aesthetic homage, sure. But the actual core—that deep thrum of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Akira Kurosawa’s legacy is getting the 4K treatment with a massive U.S. festival. Film Forum in New York City will be hosting a ...

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.

Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest attempts to remake a beloved Akira Kurosawa film about the injustices of a class-stratified society all while sidestepping class. Even Denzel Washington can’t save this ...

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 ...

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 ...

For his latest film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee has turned to one of his influences, and one of cinema’s most iconic filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa, remaking his 1963 film “High and Low.” Kurosawa’s ...