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*Stray Dog* (野良犬) is a 1949 Japanese black-and-white film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa and Ryūzō Kikushima. The cast includes Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, and Minoru Chiaki. Produced by Toho and Sōjirō Motoki, the movie features cinematography by Asakazu Nakai and music by Fumio Hayasaka. It is classified as a buddy film, crime film, film noir, and drama, with a runtime of 122 minutes.
Set in Tokyo, the narrative follows a detective and involves a gun. The film was distributed by Toho and Netflix in video on demand format. Its tagline is "The Suspense Filled Story of 7 Bullets!" The work has received various review scores, including 7.9/10 and 96%, alongside an IMDb rating of 7.8 based on 20,898 votes. It has won four awards.
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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.
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
Themes
- gun
- detective
- film noir
- tokyo, japan
- black and white
- post war japan
- heatwave
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
20,087 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
- Year
- 1949
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 4 wins total
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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
- Language
- Japanese
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Wikidata facts
- 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
- Narrative location
- Tokyo
- Filming location
- Japan
- Duration
- 122
- FilmAffinity ID
- 801483
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Nora inu poster.jpg
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- Commons category
- Stray Dog
- publication date
- 1963-08-31
- title
- 野良犬
- distributed by
- Netflix
- color
- black-and-white
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- Academy ratio
- review score
- 96%
- film editor
- Akira Kurosawa
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Plot
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