25 August 2012

Stray Dog (Japan, 1949)

Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until taken under the wing of an older and wiser detective, Sato. Together they must track down the culprit before more people show up dead, killed by Murakami's own gun.

Stray Dog is a great film-noir police drama by Akira Kurosawa with Toshiro Mifune in the lead as a desperate rookie cop. It features an highly entertaining plot where the tension mounts fast and the story grows more and more complex. A classic, well-directed and compelling detective story about a missing gun. Beautiful.



Genre: Drama/Crime/Film-noir

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