Stray Dog

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Stray Dog is a 1949 Japanese crime drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, often regarded as an early masterpiece of film noir–influenced police procedural cinema.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese film
crime drama film
film
film noir–influenced film
police procedural film
basedOn original screenplay
blackAndWhite true
cinematographer Asakazu Nakai NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Japan
director Akira Kurosawa NERFINISHED
distributor Toho NERFINISHED
editor Akira Kurosawa NERFINISHED
filmingLocation Tokyo NERFINISHED
genre crime drama
film noir
police procedural
hasFilmRating critically acclaimed
includedIn Akira Kurosawa filmography
mainCharacter Detective Murakami NERFINISHED
Detective Sato NERFINISHED
musicBy Fumio Hayasaka NERFINISHED
notableFor early example of Japanese film noir
early masterpiece of Akira Kurosawa
realist depiction of postwar Tokyo heat wave
originalLanguage Japanese
originalTitle 野良犬
plotFocus search for a stolen police pistol
portrayedBy Takashi Shimura NERFINISHED
Toshiro Mifune NERFINISHED
producer Tomoyuki Tanaka NERFINISHED
productionCompany Toho NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1949-10-17
releaseYear 1949
romanizedTitle Nora inu NERFINISHED
runtimeMinutes 122
screenwriter Akira Kurosawa NERFINISHED
Ryuzo Kikushima NERFINISHED
setInPeriod postwar Japan
starred Keiko Awaji NERFINISHED
Takashi Shimura NERFINISHED
Toshiro Mifune NERFINISHED
theme crime and morality
guilt and responsibility
postwar poverty
title Stray Dog NERFINISHED

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Subject: Stray Dog
Description of subject: Stray Dog is a 1949 Japanese crime drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, often regarded as an early masterpiece of film noir–influenced police procedural cinema.

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Akira Kurosawa notableWork Stray Dog