Legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s Excessive and Low will get a contemporary New York Metropolis music trade twist courtesy of director Spike Lee and star Denzel Washington, based on the brand new official, full-length trailer for the Highest 2 Lowest film Apple TV+ dropped Monday, on prime of the earlier teaser trailer. You possibly can watch each beneath.
The brand new film hits theaters August 22 earlier than streaming on Apple TV+ September 5.
New official trailer tells a tense story of kidnapping in Spike Lee’s Kurosawa remake Highest2Lowest
The brand new official trailer for Spike Lee’s Kurowawa remake Highest2Lowest tells extra of the story than the teaser trailer did. We see a bit extra of Washington’s ruling report producer, David King, in every day New York Metropolis life and after the kidnapping of his son Trey (Aubrey Joseph) turns it the wrong way up.
The doubtless tragic flip takes place simply as the person tries to cement in legacy within the music enterprise. We watch him desperately attempt to join with the obvious kidnapper — the insolent voice of Yung Felony (A$AP Rocky) on the cellphone — over realizing what it’s wish to don’t have anything and need every part. And it seems to be like Jeffrey Wright (Westworld, The Batman) will play an enormous function as King’s driver, Paul Christopher. At one level, when King expresses shock Christopher has a handgun, the driving force calls it insurance coverage — “that is Jake from State Farm,” he growls.
Trendy trailer reveals Spike Lee and Denzel Washington going Highest 2 Lowest film in Kurosawa remake
Japanese director Kurosawa’s police procedural crime drama Excessive and Low (“Heaven and Hell” in Japanese) — involving the kidnapping of a rich shoe magnate — got here out in 1963 to modest acclaim and excessive field workplace gross sales in Japan. Ultimately it went on to turn out to be the second-highest rating Kurosawa movie — after the basic Seven Samurai — on no less than a few movie web sites, together with Rotten Tomatoes.
Now, Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest resets the story in modern-day New York Metropolis. This time a music mogul (Washington) faces a ransom plot. In two scenes within the trailer establishing his music biz cred, he’s seen sporting what seem like gold-plated Beats headphones. Will there be a product tie-in? Possibly not involving precise gold?
Highest 2 Lowest film: fifth time ‘brothers’ Lee and Washington pair up
Apparently, Apple’s description on the YouTube web page refers to Washington and Lee as “brothers,” in what may draw some jibes over cultural language appropriation on the iPhone big’s half:
“When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), broadly referred to as having the ‘greatest ears within the enterprise,’ is focused with a ransom plot, he’s jammed up in a life-or-death ethical dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the fifth time of their lengthy working relationship for a reinterpretation of the nice filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller Excessive and Low, now performed out on the imply streets of contemporary day New York Metropolis.”
Watch the trailer for Highest 2 Lowest film:
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We first revealed this submit on Could 5, 2025, and republished it with the brand new trailer on August 4, 2025.