Message from byoung

[Anonymous]

I borrowed Tobia's copy of High and Low byAkira Kurosawa. It was set in post industrial Japan around the 1960s and the first thig I noted was the relationship between the husband and wife. The wife was submissive and gentle, while the husband, who was in angst, told her that his job was none of her business, that she knew nothing of it. There was the sense, though, that the wife did have the right idea, and that her predictions would come true. She was confident, also, on how her husband would decide to act on the ransoming a child.

The second aspect about the movie that interested me was the use of Western clothing, cars, and cowboy outfits. The little boys were tumbling through the house playing cowboys and Indians, the businessmen wore shirts and suits. The wife, however, wore traditional (as far as I could tell) clothing in one scene and a Western dress and pumps in another scene.

From Belinda Young