even with some very slow bit in this film and i still have to say it be my second favorite film by kurosawa ( after seven samurai and of course ) . scene and dialogue in this film just stick with you and like when a young pickpocket be share a popsicle in a police interrogation room with streetwise and experienced inspector sato ( play by one of my favorite actor and takhashi shimura ) . they seem and strangely and to be enjoy themselves . but then sato give the girl a cigarette and she suck on it a if her last breath be come and smoke almost the whole cigarette in 30 second . the tension that pour out of the girl in that scene be incredible . shimura and mifune a the wise and old cop and the young and earnest rookie be absolutely convincing and completely mesmerize . the streetwise petty criminal that they meet paint such a vivid picture of post war tokyo that you feel the heat and choke in the dust with them .