Stray Dog (1949)
- Original title
- 野良犬
- Directed by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Genre
- drama film, crime film, film noir, buddy film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 2h 02m
- Rated
- M
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 361 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A detective's gun is stolen, and he teams up with an older, weary cop to track it down through Tokyo's seedy underworld. The search forces them to confront the desperation and poverty of post-war Japan.
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What happens
Stray Dog (Japanese: 野良犬, Hepburn: Nora inu) is a 1949 Japanese crime drama noir film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura. It was Kurosawa's second film of 1949 produced by the Film Art Association and released by Shintoho. It is also considered a detective movie (among the earliest films in that genre) that explores the mood of Japan during its painful postwar recovery, as well as a precursor to the contemporary police procedural and buddy cop film genres, based on its premise of pairing two cops with different personalities and motivations together on a difficult case. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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