Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Stray Dog

Japan Kurosawa 1948

This was his first major film. A rookie policeman has his gun stolen while traveling on a crowded bus and we go along with him while he scours Tokyo's underworld trying to retrieve it.

Extremely accomplished work with consistently imaginative camera/framing work. Many familiar actors appear who would later become members of his collective...including Takeshi Shimura.

A bit overacted in some scenes but overall this was way ahead of anything that was coming out of Hollywood that year.

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