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Jack Lineman
12Feb12
I absolutely love that moment about 18 minutes into the film with Toshiro Mifune eyes.
Espen Nomedal
21Jan12
Young Toshiro Mifune plays a rookie policeman who gets his firearm stolen. In danger of losing his job, he becomes hellbent on getting it back while Tokyo is having a heatwave. First thought - great slapstick material! Maybe in other hands than Kurosawa's... As the many shots of running feet, sweating faces and searching eyes suggest, this is no laughing matter. A film as hard as they come about the self-image.
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Ciaran Campbell
16Dec11
You don't hear as much about this film as you do about his other great movies like Rashomon or Yojimbo, it's a masterful crime film and in my top 3 Kurosawa films
Ace Craven
8Sep11
The "Stray Dog" runs a straight line. Feels very point-to-point. Not amongst Kurosawa's strongest: the story lacks refinement, editing feels off-beat at times, some sloppy shots and strange compositions. The production design is a wonderful culmination of his past work and a stage for future films. Tone feels like a "film of The Archers." A violent discussion about generational gaps. The third act is great.
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M Klein
10Aug11
Mifune sweats. Shimura eats an ice lolly. A girl twirls round in the dress that has cost people's lives. Two men collapse in a field (wish that scene was in colour.) I'm not convinced that Mifune's character ever buys Shimura's verdict on the whole affair - after all, he's been in the war, and Shimura hasn't.
Francisco R.
26Apr11
Great noir that serves as an omen of even better things to come from Kurosawa in that period. Loved that fast, narrated intro and Mifune's acting.
Diego Gatto
5Apr11
A Aventura de kuroswa pelo suspense... dos filmes que eu já vi, é o mais fraco desse diretor, embora seja muito melhor que muitos outros filmes do gênero ocidentais.
GIANT COCK EATER
10Jun10
My second viewing, haven't seen it in years. Still one of my favorite of Kurosawa's, I love how he drags on the search for the gun in the beginning. Watch Mifune in each scene- he plays the eager greenhorn with detail and subtlety. Kurosawa turns a basic detective story into a rich experience about humanity and justice, and who's to blame. The ending scene with the children singing is also pretty gut-wrenching.
VENIMOS LOS JODIMOS Y NOS FUIMOS
6Jun10
Otro balbuceo previo a Rashomon por parte de Akira Kurosawa. El policia encarnado por Toshiro Mifune debe ser, sin duda, el "tira" mas pendejo de toda la historia del cine. Un argumento que raya en la candidez e ingeniudad totales hacen de esta una de las peliculas menos logradas del director, salvable unicamente por su acostumbrada mirada critica a la sociedad japonesa, aunque nada contundente como lo seran sus obras futuras.
thomas@theauteurs
28Mar10
Watched this yesterday on DVD. An excellent movie. Knowing Toshiro Mifune only from Rashomon and Seven Samurai, I was surprised to see him giving such a subdued performance. There seems to be aspects of both Von Sternberg and Hitchcock in Kurosawa's direction, though not in any way derivative. The final chase is very intense, the exhaustion feels very real.
Pierluigi Puccini
27Nov08
Intense japanese post-war drama heavily inspired by the crudeness of american film-noir and, on a smaller degree, by the italian neorealism. Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune are great as the veteran detective and his companion, respectively. There are some excellent moments of suspense, like the baseball game and the train station climax.