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7.6A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
Released: 1949-10-17122 minDir: Akira KurosawaCrime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Det. Murakami
- Takashi Shimura as Det. Sato
- Keiko Awaji as Harumi Namiki
- Eiko Miyoshi as Harumi's mother
- Noriko Sengoku as Girl
- Noriko Honma as Wooden Tub Shop woman
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenplay by
- Akira Kurosawa Ryūzō Kikushima
- Produced by
- Sōjirō Motoki
- Starring
- Toshiro Mifune Takashi Shimura Keiko Awaji Noriko Sengoku Noriko Honma Eiko Miyoshi [ ja ] Hajime Izu [ ja ] Ichiro Sugai Minoru Chiaki Eijirō Tōno Teruko Kishi [ ja ] Iida Chōko Reikichi Kawamura [ ja ]
- Cinematography
- Asakazu Nakai
- Edited by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Music by
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Production companies
- Shintoho Film Art Association
- Distributed by
- Toho
- Release date
- 17 October 1949 ( 1949-10-17 )
- Running time
- 122 minutes
- Country
- Japan
Key dates
- Published
- 31 August 1963
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenwriter
- Ryūzō Kikushima
- Composer
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Producer
- Sōjirō Motoki
- Production company
- Toho
- Cinematographer
- Asakazu Nakai
Article
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.
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1940s crime thriller films1940s Japanese-language films1940s police procedural films1949 films1949 Japanese filmsFictional portrayals of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police DepartmentFilm noirFilms directed by Akira KurosawaFilms produced by Sōjirō MotokiFilms scored by Fumio HayasakaFilms set in TokyoFilms shot in Tokyo