A remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 drama High and Low, Highest 2 Lowest stars Denzel Washington as the businessman who finds himself torn between whether to further his own interests or do the right thing (no pun intended) and save the life of the child of one of his employees by paying a ransom.
Written by William Alan Fox, the film also stars Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, Ice Spice and ASAP Rocky.
Highest 2 Lowest is in UK/ROI cinemas and on Apple TV+ from September 5th.
Check out the new trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business,” is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the fifth time in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller “High and Low,” now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City.