Spike Lee will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Torino Film Festival in Turin, where the Oscar-winning director will launch his Akira Kurosawa-inspired kidnapping drama “Highest 2 Lowest” in Italy.

Lee’s latest film — a reimagining of Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller “High and Low” starring Denzel Washington and hailing from Apple Original Films and A24 — world premiered at Cannes. It sees Washington play a music mogul who faces a series of big moral choices.

The director most recently travelled to Italy in March to meet with iconic Italian singer Adriano Celentano, a variation of whose hit song “Prisencolinensinainciusol” features in “Highest 2 Lowest” recorded by Aiyana-Lee with the title “Prisencolin (Americano Joint).”

Lee is an Academy Award winner for “BlacKkKl

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