The postwar years. The police Goro Murakami on the bus steal a gun. In search of the missing weapons he has to visit many areas of Tokyo, to visit the secret brothels, slums, vacant lots.
In the meantime, kidnapped by gun committed several murders. Goro is obsessed with the idea of responsibility for these crimes. The criminal he hunts, as he is a former soldier. Goro ponders how he would have done, finding themselves in similar circumstances.
Nora inu
| Year | 1949 |
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| Country | Japan |
| Tagline | Another great detective classic in the tradition of 'High and Low' by the same director! |
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
| Scriptwriters | Ryuzo KikushimaAkira Kurosawa |
| Produced | Sôjirô MotokiAkira KurosawaSenkichi Taniguchi |
| Music | Fumio Hayasaka |
| Art Direction | Takashi Matsuyama |
| Editing | Toshio GotoYoshi Sugihara |
| Genres | ThrillerDramaCrimeDetective |
| Release Date | October 17, 1949 |
| Runtime | 122 min. |
Plot Summary
Did You Know?
Film debut of actor and stuntman Haruo Nakajima. The bar fight scene with his participation in the movie was cut, but later, Nakajima made a good career and took part in the shooting of more than 50 tapes.
Akira Kurosawa originally wrote his story as a novel. He focused on the psychological detective stories of Georges Simenon about the Commissioner Maigret, where the social and psychological background of the story played a bigger role than the classical deductive method of Sherlock Holmes. Stray dog Japanese Maigret was a detective Sato, played one of my favorite actors Kurosawa Takashi Samurai
Rolling the English name "Stray Dog".
The film opens with a long close-up of panting dog. American censors thought that the dog on purpose hurt to remove it like this and cut the scene. Irritated. then stated that at the moment he is the first and last time sorry that Japan lost the Second world war.
The film is in the public domain in Japan (according to Japanese law, the copyright expires 50 years after publication or creation, if the work was not published within 50 years after creation). Outside Japan, the rights are controlled by the company Toho International.