Jack Clark and Jim Weir on High and Low

With their bachelor-party nightmare Birdeater in theaters and on demand in the US and en route to Canada, Australian filmmakers Jack Clark and Jim Weir drop by to share their love for Akira Kurosawa’s relentless 1963 crime drama High and Low, starring Toshiro Mifune as an executive whose scheme to take over his own company is derailed when a kidnapper mistakenly abducts his chauffeur’s son. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been waiting so long for someone to pick a Kurosawa movie, you have no idea.