Ballina Film Club presents Kurosawa: Stray Dog Film
From:January 19, 2010 20:00 to: January 19, 2010 22:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Stray Dog, Kurosawa's ninth film, is generally considered his first masterpiece.
Dostoyevskian themes and motifs – humanism, class conflict, masculine pain and guilt, doppelgangers – abound.
There are stellar performances throughout, including the first great teaming of Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura (in their fourth appearance together in a Kurosawa film). And of course the film's elaborate visuals, formal complexities, and dramatic pacing announce a career that would be internationally acclaimed with Rashomon just a year later.
Rookie homicide detective Murakami (Toshir? Mifune) frantically seeks his stolen Colt pistol which, to his shame, has been pickpocketed on a bus. A manhunt begins when the stolen gun is used in a murder. The older and wiser detective, Sato (Takashi Shimura), takes Murakami under his wing.
The evolving relationship between the two men gives the film depth. The action throughout takes place during a heatwave in a bombed-out post-war Tokyo. Stray Dog was originally written by Kurosawa as a novel in 40 days, after which he took another 50 days to adapt it for screen.
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