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DVD ~ Toshirô Mifune
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  • Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Noriko Sengoku
  • Directors: Akira Kurosawa
  • Format: Black & White, Full Screen, PAL
  • Language Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Bfi Video
  • DVD Release Date: 25 Mar 2002
  • Run Time: 117 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000060NZ9
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,385 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features
1.33 Full Screen
Japanese
Region 2
English


Synopsis
The setting for this Akira Kurosawa film noir is Tokyo in the late 1940s, its streets blasted by war and its economy in collapse. When Murakami, a young detective (Toshiro Mifune, in one of his earliest roles), loses his gun to a thief, he must descend into a hell teeming with shady characters to retrieve it. Soon Murakami's pistol turns up as the weapon in the murder of a woman, leading the guilt-ridden rookie to seek help from his senior officer, Sato (Takashi Shimura). Together Murakami and Sato must hunt down the killer before he strikes again.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars YOU WILL BE AMAZED!!, 1 Feb 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Stray Dog [VHS] [1949] (VHS Tape)
This is outstanding! A personal favourite of mine i must admit. This is a gem, but not a well known one. I've always felt that this is one of the most over looked of Kurosawa's films. WHY? i don't know, but if you get the chance, buy it or see it, you will not be sorry.
A young Mifune plays a detective that has his gun stolen from him. The quest for its retrieval is long and painful for the young detective, made even more so by the news that gun has been used in several murder cases. The hunt increases, with the final minutes of the film reaching a climactic high that is unmatched by any other film made since. The hotel and train station scene fifteen minutes before the end is a piece of cinema heaven. It is pure, pure genius.
You will enjoy!!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Hot action film from early Kurosawa stable, 2 Jan 2004
You can see the process that was to flower in Kurosawa's later films, taking shape here. Yes the search sequence in the film is perhaps a little too long, but the story, written by Kurosawa, is sound, and the drama leads you on. The chase scene used in this film was the inspiration behind the French Connection, and the telephone call from the hotel was adapted William Friedkin, to help illustrate Gene Hackmans charichter.

The weather, is hot, and this is set up with panting dog from the very onset of the films titles. Stray Dog is a film about the difference in outlook between a calm, wise but jaded senior figure (Takashi Shimura) and his young impaitentent but more forgiving rookie (Toshiro Mifune). See this film, if for no other reason than the wonderful backdrop of post war japan.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Police Procedural. Kurosawa style, 6 Jan 2006
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Stray Dog gets off to a surprisingly slack start, not helped by some utterly redundant narration that repeats what we have heard in the previous scene and will see in the next. Because it’s Kurosawa, some might ascribe some higher purpose to it, but since he immediately abandons it, it seems more a lack of confidence than design. At other times he seems to be overly in love with his footage: there’s not a duff shot in the wildly overlong poverty montage of Toshiro Mifune going undercover as a vagrant, but it’s hard to justify the seven minutes given over to the scene.

Yet the film gradually exerts a grip as it becomes increasingly clear that Kurosawa’s intent is not just to deliver a thriller but also a movie dealing with the effect of crime on its victims and the dehumanising effect on both those who commit it and those charged with retribution, as rookie cop Mifune takes his first steps down the road that will inevitably lead to the death of sympathy and empathy. For all his western influences (not least a music score that constantly threatens to turn into Warren and Dubin’s 'Remember My Forgotten Man' from 'Golddiggers of 1933' without ever quite going that far), Kurosawa avoids a hardboiled approach: Mifune’s experienced partner Takashi Shimura is no hardass, although his easygoing amiability disguises a lack of compassion in what has become a repetitive job without urgency: while Mifune takes every crime committed with his stolen gun on his own shoulders, Shimura brushes aside his concerns by pointing out that if the killer hadn’t used his gun “he would have used a Browning instead.”

There’s a good sense of time and place, a post-war Tokyo when it was still a wooden city in the midst of a sweltering heatwave leading to a storm, and there’s a good occasional sense of detail, such as the great piece of detection at the end as Mifune eliminates the other suspects waiting at a train station. However, it does rely on a little too much contrivance at times: is it really credible that Mifune would forget not just to inform his colleagues of the killer’s location but set off without a gun? This isn’t Kurosawa at the peak of his powers by any means, but there’s definitely the sense of a filmmaker working his way up.

On the plus side, the BFI's DVD boasts a good transfer but compared to the wealth of extras on the R1 Criterion disc, a few pages of text biographies and a single poster image make for a poor extras package indeed.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Film Noir........ Japenese style
"Stray Dog" is, worlds away from the Hollywood pacing of modern films it is reflective,emotional and mentally engrossing. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Costumes or no costumes, Kurosawa is unmissable.
Although Kurosawa's most famous works are his period pieces, I have found his 'modern' work to be just as compelling. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant !!!!
i had never seen this film till it was on at 1am last boxing day. i stayed awake and watched it and was glad i did. Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2002 by D. Pyke

4.0 out of 5 stars Early film noir classic from the master
An early film from Kurosawa which stars Toshiro Mifune who was Kurosawa's principle actor in all but one of his films up till 1965 (Red Beard). Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2002 by J. Goddeb

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