First Teaser for Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest Updates Akira Kurosawa’s Crime Masterpiece to the Modern Day

Among our most anticipated films set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival is Spike Lee’s first narrative feature in five years. Highest 2 Lowest, his reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, follows a reteam with Denzel Washington after Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, He Got Game, and Inside Man. Also starring Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky, Apple and A24 have now announced a theatrical release beginning August 22 and Apple TV+ release on September 5 as the first teaser has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “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 5th 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.”

See the teaser below.