Stray Dog is a 1949 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, set during a Tokyo heat wave in the postwar years. It follows homicide detective Murakami, whose pistol is stolen on a crowded trolley, as he and veteran detective Sato trace the weapon through the criminal underworld of the city to a disillusioned war veteran who has used it in a robbery and murder. Pairing two detectives of contrasting temperament while examining the difficult postwar recovery of Japan, it is considered an early precursor of the police-procedural and buddy-cop film genres.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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