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Stray Dog

1949, Movie, NR, 122 mins

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STRAY DOG, about a rookie homicide detective named Murakami (Toshiro Mifune) searching for his stolen gun in 1949 Tokyo, is the first great film directed by Akira Kurosawa and is equally superb as a riveting detective thriller, a painstaking police procedural, and a sociological study of the moral and economic conditions of postwar Japan. Kurosawa consciously follows the model of Hollywood films noirs, with lots of moody low-key lighting and the depiction of a morally ambigu... read more leave a comment
Year: 1949
Rated NR

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Cast
Toshiro Mifune: Murakami
Takashi Shimura: Sato
Ko Kimura: Yusa
Keiko Awaji: Harumi
Reisaburo Yamamoto: Honda
Noriko Sengoku: Girl

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