Anatomia di un rapimento

Titolo originale: 天国と地獄
Regia: Akira Kurosawa |
Anno: 1963
Origine: Japan |
Generi: Dramma Crime Thriller
Tag: chauffeur | police | ransom | manager | kidnapping | blackmail | heroin | film noir | black and white | shoe | criminal investigation | japanese noir | yokohama | shōwa era (1926-89) | japanese society |
Cast: Toshirō Mifune | Tatsuya Nakadai | Kyōko Kagawa | Tatsuya Mihashi | Isao Kimura | Kenjirō Ishiyama | Takeshi Katō | Takashi Shimura | Jun Tazaki | Nobuo Nakamura | Yūnosuke Itō | Tsutomu Yamazaki | Minoru Chiaki | Eijirō Tōno | Masao Shimizu | Yutaka Sada | Masahiko Shimazu | Toshio Egi | Kōji Mitsui | Kyū Sazanka | Susumu Fujita | Kamatari Fujiwara | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Kazuo Kitamura | Gen Shimizu | Akira Nagoya | Jun Hamamura | Masao Oda | Kō Nishimura | Yoshibumi Tajima | Koji Kiyomura | Hiroshi Unayama | Yoshisuke Makino | Jun Kondô | Tomo Suzuki | Senkichi Ōmura | Kazuo Katō | Ikio Sawamura | Kin Sugai | Keiko Tomita | Isao Onoda | Seiichi Taguchi | Takeo Matsushita | Kiyoshi Yamamoto | Kenji Kodama | Minoru Itō | Haruo Suzuki | Kōzō Nomura |

Il figlio di un autista viene rapito, ma è il frutto di un errore di persona. Il vero oggetto del desiderio per lo studente protagonista era il figlio di un industriale. Il commissario di polizia indaga in ricerca del rapitore e si addentrerà nei gironi di un inferno senza uscita.

Approfondimenti

Toho's title for international sales was "The Ransom". D
The amount of the ransom in 2018 dollars is approximately $2.8 million. D
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #24. D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd. D
For shooting on the train, extras as passengers were recruited from the richest community in Tokyo s [...] D
Yutaka Sada, who portrays Aoki the chauffeur, did not have driver's license when he was cast for the [...] D
For the scenes in Gondo (Toshirô Mifune)'s house, an outside miniature set of Yokohama was built, [...] D
Most of the train sequence was shot live, on the Kodama Super Express. Most of the extras are passen [...] D
The tenth and last film directed by Akira Kurosawa to feature Minoru Chiaki. D
The original ending of Evan Hunter's novel shows King Gondo (Toshirô Mifune) with his recovered m [...] D
The film made its American debut in November 1963, the week that President John F. Kennedy was assas [...] D
There is one shot of the movie that is in color - the scene of the colored smoke rising from the inc [...] D
During the kidnapper's first on-screen appearance, Franz Schuberts "Trout Quintet" is heard in the b [...] D
After the film was released, kidnappings were on the rise in Japan. Akira Kurosawa himself had recei [...] D
Based on the novel "King's Ransom" by Evan Hunter (pen name of Ed McBain), part of McBain's "87th Pr [...] D
In 1962 (the year before this film) Ed McBain adapted his novel as an episode of the TV series "87th [...] D
The last section of the movie originally had a great deal of dialogue, but Akira Kurosawa decided to [...] D
Akira Kurosawa: [weather] Near the ending of the movie there's a heavy downpour, set to increase the [...] D
In 1999, Martin Scorsese announced that he would be directing a remake with David Mamet writing. In [...] D
The original Japanese title for the film was "Heaven and Hell." D
Typically for his work with Kurosawa, film composer Masaru Satô was generally given about a week [...] D
Most of the outdoor Yokohama shots were filmed on location, with a few exceptions, mostly due to the [...] D
Quentin Tarantino gets the idea for his famous "Swing Dance Scene" from this movie , when the kidnap [...] D

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