Stray Dog is a solid Kurosawa film, which shows the filmmakers eye for photography and the burgeoning star power of actor Toshiro Mifune. Whilst the story is nothing extraordinary, the story surely is compelling. Detective Murakami (Mifune) loses his gun to a pickpocket and he follows his missing Colt through a series of criminal events, whilst blaming himself for the wrong being done with the weapon. He is contrasted by a cast of characters who seem to shift the blame unto other people and 'the world' itself. Takashi Simura plays the charismatic Chief Detective Sato and is the experienced addition to novice Murakami's journey throughout the case.
I might not have been as impressed by it as with 'Ikuru' or 'High and Low', but 'Stray Dog' is a good film.
7.5/8.
I might not have been as impressed by it as with 'Ikuru' or 'High and Low', but 'Stray Dog' is a good film.
7.5/8.