Stray Dog
1949, NR, 122 min.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa, Starring Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji.
In this contemporary film noir set in post-WWII Tokyo. Mifune plays a detective who is on a mission to relocate his stolen gun and find a killer.
This article appears in February 7 • 2003.
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