A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steaIs his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweItering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a Iife of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side. Starring Toshiro Mifune, as the rookie cop, and Takeshi Shimura, as the seasoned detective who keeps him on the right side of the Iaw, Stray Dog goes beyond a crime thriIIer, probing the squaIid world of postwar Japan and the nature of the criminal mind.
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