With Spike Lee’s newest film, Highest 2 Lowest, the acclaimed New York director not only reteams for the fifth time with his Academy Award-winning muse, the great Denzel Washington, but joins a lineage of distinguished filmmakers who have adapted the works of legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The new film is a reimagining of Kurosawa’s 1963 classic, High and Low, about a business tycoon thrown into a moral crisis when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped and held for an enormou...
