A story of saving face but it could have been 30 mins shorter
The first time I saw Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog was in a movie theater. While I enjoyed elements of it, I found that the movie was far too long and really dragged. I wanted to see if it faired better during a second viewing.<br /><br />The theme of Straw Dog is saving face. Toshiro Mifune is a rookie detective who had his gun stolen and must find it otherwise he will be disgraced.<br /><br />A second theme is the heat. Right from the start all the characters are sweating and trying to cool themselves. Japan is a very hot and humid country during the middle of the year and it’s meant to symbolize the pressure and desperation that Mifune feels. There are shots of him with his clothes just dripping wet.<br /><br />A third aspect is life in post-war Japan. The story takes place in Tokyo right after the end of World War II. There are shanties, homeless people, prostitutes, criminals almost everywhere Mifune goes looking for his gun. The country was devastated by the war and faced extreme poverty and hardships for many years until the economic boom of the 1950s due to the Korean War started to turn things around.<br /><br />A fourth issue is the role of a mentor. Mifune is eventually teamed with Takashi Shimura the chief detective, a Kurosawa fav. He shows Mifune the ropes of his job and helps break the case.<br /><br />Here’s my one complaint Kurosawa dragged out the story to nauseating effect several times. There’s one where Mifune is casing the streets hoping to come across a lead on his missing gun. It’s meant to portray the fruitlessness of his ordeal by showing Mifune going from place to place over and over. Similarly, Mifune and Shimura are trying to find a man at a baseball game. They show the game again and again and again. It’s just too much and could have been edited to make for a much tighter story. If the film was an hour and a half instead of two hours it would have been much better.
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