Stray Dog is a 1949 Japanese police procedural film noir directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring frequent collaborators Toshirō Mifune and Takashi Shimura. The film is considered a precursor to the contemporary police procedural and buddy cop film genres. Action takes place during a heatwave in a bombed-out, post-war Tokyo. Rookie homicide detective Murakami has his Colt pistol stolen during a trolley ride and gives chase to the pickpocket, but when he fails to capture him he reports back to headquarters filled with guilt and shame. He goes on to prowl the city backstreets undercover,... looking for suspects and picking up leads. He eventually picks up the trail of a gun racket. When the stolen gun is used in a crime, Murakami partners up with the veteran detective Sato . After questioning a suspect, Sato and Murakami end up at a baseball game looking for a gun dealer named Honda. They locate him and he points to Yusa, a disenchanted war veteran who's fallen to crime after the war. They investigate Yusa's sister's house and his sweetheart, showgirl Harumi Namiki, but to no avail.
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| Release date: | October 17, 1949 |
| Directed by: | Akira Kurosawa |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 122 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sojiro Motoki |
| Editor: | Toshio Goto, Yoshi Sugihara, Toshio Goto |
| Music by: | Fumio Hayasaka |
| Cinematography: | Asakazu Nakai, Asakazu Nakai |
| Screenplay by: | Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima |
| Genre: | Thriller |