High and Low is a 1963 Japanese police procedural directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijirō Hisaita, and Ryūzō Kikushima as a loose adaptation of the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Evan Hunter. From Wikipedia
His favorite films reflect influences shaping his cinematic style ahead of a Death Stranding movie