Stray Dog (1949)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life 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.
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In that, Fincher's film is a cousin to Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog (1949) and High and Low (1963), Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men (1976) and Oliver Stone's JFK (1991).
Shooting was halted three times on Akira Kurosawa’s monumental fusion of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and the legend of feudal lord Mōri Motonari, due to the deaths of his regular fight choreographer Ryu Kuze, his soundman since “ Stray Dog ,” Fumio Yanoguchi, and his wife and sounding board, Yôko Yaguchi.
As with his previous Stray Dog (1949), Kurosawa revels in the details of detection, as well as doing miraculous things with the composition of his widescreen frame.
The Bad Sleep Well, Stray Dog, and the like have everything The Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, and his other large-scale films do—strong characters, brilliant staging, intriguing storylines—while also offering a window into life in postwar Japan.