Short version: In Spike Lee’s “reinterpretation” of Akira Kurosawa’s masterful thriller “High and Low,” Denzel Washington plays a music mogul who is targeted in a kidnapping plot while he’s trying to ...

From the opening moments of “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee’s remix-as-remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film “High and Low,” you ...