Highest 2 Lowest

Music mogul David King is trying to maintain control over his record company, investing everything to buy a controlling stake and prevent its sale. Suddenly, someone attempts to kidnap his son—but mistakenly abducts the driver’s child instead, a loyal servant of King. The kidnapper still demands a ransom, forcing David to face a moral dilemma: should he spend a fortune to save someone else’s child?

A reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s iconic thriller High and Low, a film that explored class conflicts in Japanese society through a complex moral quandary. It sounds fascinating—after all, Kurosawa made films that could only be Japanese, while Spike Lee is one of the most prominent voices of African-American culture.