Stray Dog (1949)

By RM
saturday, november 15, 2025 at 6:24:00 p.m. est

Great movie [High and Low]. They ought to show Stray Dog (1949), also a noir of sorts-a police detective's gun is stolen, and he searches all over Tokyo looking for it. It's an incredible tour of post-War Japan, showing how Americanized their culture had become, despite just having been at war with us! (We even get to see their baseball stadiums.)

The 2nd-unit director was Ishiro Honda, soon to become famous for his classic sci-fi noir, the original Godzilla (and a host of lesser follow-ups). Honda worked again with Kurosawa on some of his latter-day movies like Ran and Dreams.

-RM