Highest 2 Lowest

Highest 2 Lowest
Highest 2 Lowest
	Release poster
Directed by	Spike Lee
Screenplay by	Alan Fox
Based on	High and Low; (1963 film); by Akira Kurosawa; Hideo Oguni; Ryūzō Kikushima; Eijirō Hisaita; ; King's Ransom; (1959 novel); by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter);
Produced by	Todd Black; Jason Michael Berman;
Starring	Denzel Washington; Jeffrey Wright; Ilfenesh Hadera; ASAP Rocky;
Cinematography	Matthew Libatique
Edited by	Barry Alexander Brown; Allyson C. Johnson;
Music by	Howard Drossin
Production; companies	A24; Kurosawa Production; 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; Escape Artists; Mandalay Pictures;
Distributed by	A24; Apple Original Films;
Release dates	May 19, 2025 (Cannes); August 15, 2025 (United States); September 5, 2025 (Apple TV);
Running time	133 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.5 million

Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay by Alan Fox. It is an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself based on Ed McBain's 1959 novel King's Ransom. The film stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, ASAP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Princess Nokia, and Ice Spice (in her film debut). It is the fifth collaboration between Lee and Washington and the first since Inside Man (2006).

Principal photography began in New York City in March 2024 and wrapped that May. Highest 2 Lowest had its world premiere out of competition of the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2025, and was released theatrically in the United States by A24 on August 15 before becoming available on Apple TV+ on September 5. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.