Stray Dog (Kurosawa)

Stray Dog
(Nora inu)

Dir. Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1949, 122 mins, Japanese with English subtitles, Cert: PG


Mon 14 July // 20:00

Tickets £5

A sweltering summer in postwar Tokyo. A rookie detective’s pistol is stolen on a packed bus, and with it, his sense of control. What begins as a frantic search for a missing weapon spirals into a haunting journey through the city’s underbelly—and into the heart of a man pushed to the edge.

Toshiro Mifune delivers a raw, magnetic performance as Murakami, the young cop whose pursuit of a desperate criminal becomes a mirror to his own inner turmoil. With Takashi Shimura as the seasoned mentor who keeps him grounded, Stray Dog is a gripping noir and a searing portrait of a society in flux. Newly reissued by the BFI earlier this year, Kurosawa’s early masterpiece remains as urgent and psychologically rich as ever.

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