The trailer for Spike Lee and Denzel Washington’s Highest 2 Lowest immediately got us pumped for the 2025 new movie. Part of the reason for that is it’s the first movie pairing the Oscar-winning filmmaker and two-time Oscar-winning actor in almost 20 years. The other part is that Highest 2 Lowest is Spike Lee’s interpretation of the work of another master filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low.
Kurosawa is one of the most revered filmmakers of all time, responsible for a number of classics that include Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo and Ran. Also among those was 1963’s High and Low, a crime drama that has a 96% “Fresh” score on Rotten Tomatoes and ranks as the 84th best movie of all time on IMDb as voted by IMDb users.
