Warning: This story contains spoilers for Highest 2 Lowest.

Highest 2 Lowest , Spike Lee’s latest film, marks his fifth collaboration with fellow Oscar winner Denzel Washington , and their first film together in 19 years, after 2006’s Inside Man . The film is “not a remake, but a reinterpretation,” Lee is careful to clarify, of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 masterpiece High and Low , itself an adaptation of Evan Hunter’s novel King’s Ransom . Lee’s film moves that film’s post-war Japanese setting to contemporary New York City, which has served as the backdrop for many of his most famous movies. It’s a film infused with Lee’s personal passions of New York, the Knicks, the Yankees, and music. In fact, in Highest 2 Lowest , it’s all about the music.

Washington plays David King,

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