With 'Highest 2 Lowest,' Spike Lee puts a hip-hop spin on Kurosawa's 1963 classic
Lee's new film centers on a music mogul who faces a moral dilemma when kidnappers mistakenly hold his friend's son ransom instead of his own: Will he risk it all to save a child who isn't his?
Lee's new film centers on a music mogul who faces a moral dilemma when kidnappers mistakenly hold his friend's son ransom instead of his own: Will he risk it all to save a child who isn't his?

Source: With 'Highest 2 Lowest,' Spike Lee puts a hip-hop spin on Kurosawa's 1963 classic (https://www.npr.org/2025/08/19/nx-s1-5503407/with-highest-2-lowest-spike-lee-puts-a-hip-hop-spin-on-kurosawas-1963-classic)