--- title: 'Stray Dog (1949)' type: 'film' director: 'Akira Kurosawa' released: '1949-10-17' runtime_minutes: 122 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/stray-dog-1949' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041699/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Stray Dog (1949) 1949 · 122 min · Drama, Crime · Japan Original title: 野良犬 ## Synopsis Stray Dog is a 1949 Japanese crime drama noir film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura. It was Kurosawa's second film of 1949 produced by the Film Art Association and released by Shintoho. It is also considered a detective movie that explores the mood of Japan during its painful postwar recovery, as well as a precursor to the contemporary police procedural and buddy cop film genres, based on its premise of pairing two cops with different personalities and motivations together on a difficult case. ## Credits - **Director:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa) - **Screenplay:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa), [Ryūzō Kikushima](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryuzo-kikushima) - **Editor:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa) - **Original Music Composer:** [Fumio Hayasaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/fumio-hayasaka) - **Producer:** [Sōjirō Motoki](https://cinepixo.com/people/sojiro-motoki) - **Director of Photography:** [Asakazu Nakai](https://cinepixo.com/people/asakazu-nakai) ## Cast - [Eiko Miyoshi](https://cinepixo.com/people/eiko-miyoshi) - [Takashi Shimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-shimura) - [Toshirō Mifune](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiro-mifune) - [Noriko Sengoku](https://cinepixo.com/people/noriko-sengoku) - [Keiko Awaji](https://cinepixo.com/people/keiko-awaji) - [Ishirō Honda](https://cinepixo.com/people/ishiro-honda) - [Isao Kimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/isao-kimura) - [Noriko Honma](https://cinepixo.com/people/noriko-honma) - [Eijirō Tōno](https://cinepixo.com/people/eijiro-tono) - [Minoru Chiaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/minoru-chiaki) - [Ichirō Sugai](https://cinepixo.com/people/ichiro-sugai) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/stray-dog-1949 Film facts: Wikidata (Q678972); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.