High&Low The Movie

High&Low The Movie (stylized as HiGH＆LOW THE MOVIE) is a 2016 Japanese action film directed by Shigeaki Kubo. Its ensemble cast include a large number of members of the Exile Tribe, Takanori Iwata, Akira, Sho Aoyagi, Takahiro and Hiroomi Tosaka for instances, but also actors like Kento Hayashi, Masataka Kubota, and Yuki Yamada. It is the first original film of the High&Low franchise, which follows the story of television series High&Low: The Story of S.W.O.R.D.

This article is about the 2016 Japanese film. For other films titled "High and Low", see High and Low (1933 film) and High and Low (1963 film).
High&Low The Movie
Poster
Directed byShigeaki Kubo
Screenplay by
  • Kei Watanabe
  • Norihisa Hiranuma
  • Team HI-AX
Produced by
  • Hiroyuki Ueno
  • Naoto Fujimura
  • Norihisa Hiranuma
  • Chikako Nakabayashi
CinematographyTerukuni Ajisaka
Music byYuta Nakano
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • July 16, 2016 (2016-07-16)
Running time
129 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office¥2.1 billion

The film continues to tell the stories of the five gangs that control the SWORD area. It was announced on 11 August 2015 as the centre of the High&Low entertainment project when the project was announced.

High&Low The Movie premiered in Tokyo on 4 July 2016 with more than 50 people appeared on its stage greeting event in Tokyo International Forum and was released in Japan by Shochiku on 16 July 2016. The film was released in South Korea on 12 January 2017 and in Taiwan on 20 January 2017. To celebrated the release of the film, 36 actors and singers, who took part in the High&Low project, participated in a series of stage greetings events held in 143 cinemas in all 47 prefectures of Japan in 3 days. It grossed ¥2.1 billion and attracted 1.6 million audiences.

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