Nora Inu (1949)
Genre: Filmnoir / Thriller
Duration: 122 minuten
Alternative titles: Stray Dog / 野良犬
Country:
Japan
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Keiko Awaji
IMDb score:
7,8 (20.683)
Releasedate: 17 October 1949
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Nora Inu plot
"... The Suspense Filled Story of 7 Bullets!"
A police officer loses his gun and goes to investigate. He gradually becomes obsessed with his quest, especially when he discovers that murders are being committed with his own gun.
Actors and actresses
Det. Murakami
Det. Sato
Harumi Namiki
Harumi's mother
Girl
Wooden Tub Shop woman
Kogetsu Hotel manager
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12889 votes
Connect the dots.
That's how I experienced the movie. Detective loses his gun, has to find it. To do this, he has to pass several stations that bring him closer and closer to his goal. It is all very accurately and neatly worked out, but it also makes the film very boring at times.
In any case, a number of scenes that could be greatly shortened (that baseball game?). What Kurosawa succeeds in is his setting, which is also appropriate because I think I've been sweating just as much today as the characters in this film. It's a pity that Kurosawa is very explicit, characters are constantly talking about the heat and the weather ... could be processed a little more subtly.
To my surprise, I didn't even recognize Mifune in this movie, probably because I saw him without a beard for the first time. I recognized Shimura, has a nice air and is easily the best actor in this film.
Visually it did not interest me, I found the soundtrack very annoying at times. The result is a film that could have been a bit more light-hearted and smoother, because a basic story like this doesn't captivate for two hours.
1.5*
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6070 messages
- 2476 votes
Yes, that's the sad thing about arriving late on a site like this, it may happen that someone has already made a post that I agree with about 110%, as is the case here with NarcissusBladsp. who on May 28, 2007 cut all the grass in front of my feet. (Unfortunately, he probably never will because he hasn't visited this forum in almost six years.)
His 5* is perhaps a bit high, but on the other hand: that endless search through pubs, brothels and cheap lodgings, the contrast with the cosiness and homeliness of Sato, those dialogues about "dirt breeds evil" and "there are no bad people, only bad environments", the play of the cramped Mifune against the relaxed but focused Shimura, the whole atmosphere of that underbelly of the "après-guerre" society, that clumsy fight at the end (as clumsy as in Drunken angel from the year before and Rashômon from the year after, apparently Kurosawa wanted to emphasize the lack of glamor of such a fight), the way the moral that Mifune just how easily the other side could have chosen is depicted here – all those elements weigh heavily in my appreciation. Perhaps a next viewing will bring an increase in my score, because the various explicit and implicit layers in this film deserve that.
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14596 messages
- 4552 votes
Earthy Kurosawa who scores significantly better on atmosphere, images and entertainment than on psychological and dramatic level. The latter is present and I also see what Kurosawa wants with the display of guilt, but I did not believe the picture for a moment. Partly that will be a cultural gap, but partly also the theatrical playing of Mifune. The best man can do quite a bit, but this style is very unsuitable for going into psychological depth.
Still good for entertainment. The first hour really flies by (partly due to the sharp editing) and the second hour is doable, despite long scenes like in that basketball stadium. But otherwise, especially with all those shadows, visually fine, the images of the nightlife of the anonymous metropolis (this film sometimes has some Japanese houses, but could just as well have been a film from Hollywood) are atmospheric and Shimura has a nice role (in [spoiler ]him home it even gets touching). Also funny how the story constantly plays during an enormous heat. 3.5*.
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