Films based on works by Akira Kurosawa

1964 film directed by Sergio Leone

1996 film by Walter Hill

2022 film directed by Oliver Hermanus

Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay by Alan Fox. It is an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself based on Ed McBain's 1959 novel King's Ransom. The film stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, ASAP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Princess Nokia, and Ice Spice. It is the fifth collaboration between Lee and Washington and the first since Inside Man (2006).

1996 film directed by Albert Pyun

1964 film directed by Martin Ritt

2008 film by Shinji Higuchi

1978 film by Raj N. Sippy

1984 film by John Broderick