233 - Stray Dog (1949)

With Akira Kurosawa’s (ever heard of him?) seminal detective procedural, rookie detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune - ever heard of him?) and worldly but hardly hard-bitten senior detective Sato (Takashi Shimura - ever heard of him?!) hunt through the post-war Tokyo underworld looking for a stolen handgun, hoping to stop an escalating murder-spree in the sweltering summer heat.  Among the topics discussed: linen suits, cameras pointed at the sun, and it should be called Stray Dogs (with an “s”) right?

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Guy Maddin’s Brand Upon the Brain! (2006).