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Stray Dog [Nora inu]
(1949) Japan
B&W : 122 minutes
Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Cast: Toshirô Mifune [Detective Murakami], Takashi Shimura [Chief Detective Satô], Keiko Awaji [Harumi Namiki], Eiko Miyoshi [Madame Namiki], Reikichi Kawamura [Officer Ichikawa], Yasushi Nagata [Investigation Chief Abe], Gen Shimizu [Police Inspector Nakajima], Isao Kimura [Shinjirô Yusa], Teruko Kishi [Ogin], Reizaburô Yamamoto [Honda], Masao Shimizu [Nakamura], Haruko Toyama [Kintarô], Minoru Chiaki [the dance director], Kan Yanagiya [a police officer], Akira Ubukata [the police doctor], Hajime Izu [the criminal identification officer], Kokuten Kôdô [the old landlord], Yûnosuke Itô [the Bluebird Theatre manager], Shiro Mizutani [a punkster], Eizô Tanaka [the old doctor], Kazuko Motohashi [Satô’s wife], Ichirô Sugai [the Yayoi Hotel owner], Fujio Nagahama [the Sakura Hotel manager], Rikie Sanjô [the manager’s wife], Chôko Iida [the Kôgetsu Hotel manager], Haruko Tôgô [the Azuma Hotel madame], Kappei Matsumoto [the bar owner], Noriko Sengoku [the gun trader’s mistress], Noriko Honma [the woman of the wooden tub shop], Eijirô Tôno [the old man of the wooden tub shop], Mie Asô [a woman in the pinball parlor], Kô Ubukata [the page in the pompadour hair], Ishirô Honda [a fleeing villain]

[?] Film Art Association and/or Shintoho Film Distribution Committee and/or Toho? production; distributed by Toei Company. / Produced by Sôjirô Motoki. Associate producer, Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi and Kajirô Yamamoto. Executive in charge of production, Seinosuke Hirai. Screenplay by Ryûzô Kikushima and Akira Kurosawa. Production design by Takashi Matsuyama. Assistant art director, Yoshirô Muraki. Choreography by Yoji Ken. Lighting technician, Chôshirô Ishii. Script supervision by Hachiko Toi. Assistant directors, Ishirô Honda and Zenshu Koizumi. Cinematography by Asakazu Nakai. Camera assistant, Kazuo Yamada. Sound by Fumio Yanoguchi. Sound effects editor, Ichirô Minawa. Stills photography by Issei Tanaka. Film editors, Toshio Gotô and Yoshi Sugihara. Negative cutter, Toshio Gotô. Music score by Fumio Hayasaka. / Released 17 October 1949. / Academy 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Sound film system (monaural). / The barroom fight sequence featuring Haruo Nakajima and Hajime Taniguchi was deleted before the film’s release.

Drama: Crime.

Keywords: Crime

Listing updated: 19 September 2025.

References: Website-IMDb.