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	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Stray Dog
		Stray Dog (1949), Kurosawa’s ninth film, is generally considered his first masterpiece, or at least the first for which the term can be reasonably argued.
		They also share one of the film’s loveliest moments when, from behind a delicate gauzy curtain, they watch Sato’s children sleeping — a quiet reminder that there is as always a future, and it may be different.
		Yusa’s mother tells the detective, “I found him sitting here in the dark, crying” Harumi describes his anguish at her desire for the dress, and the viewer is left to fill in the emotions Yusa must have felt between seeing her and the dress, and his purchase of it a week later with stolen money.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /45/stray.htm (1598 words)

	NYCDog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the event that the owner or keeper of the dangerous dog is a minor, the parent or guardian or such minor shall be liable for all injuries and property damage sustained by any person or domestic animal caused by an unprovoked attack by such dangerous dog.
		The owner of a dog determined to be dangerous by the commissioner, which has been confiscated pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section, may request the commissioner to conduct a hearing to determine if the dog should be returned to the owner.
		In the department, there shall be a dangerous dog advisory board consisting of the commissioner, or his or her designee, and five members, two of whom shall be appointed by the mayor and three of whom shall be appointed by the speaker of the city council.
	www.nycdog.org /laws.html (3021 words)

	DVD: Stray Dog (Criterion)
		Stray Dog, Criterion's oldest Akira Kurosawa release to date, is a collaboratory effort between Shintoho, the offshoot Toho company which branched off after strikes in 1947, and Toho, which now owns the film in its entirety after Shintoho went bankrupt in 1961.
		Scratches found during the movie are numerous, most apparent during the film's opening scenes, and several lines, running the entire length of the screen from top to bottom, do appear during its runtime.
		Bottom line, while the video and audio quality of the film on this disc leaves some to be desired due to the age of the print used; however, it's the best (and only) release of Stray Dog on region 1 to date.
	www.tohokingdom.com /web_pages/dvd/stray_dog_criterion.htm (737 words)

	Film-Forward Review: [STRAY DOG]
		The film's main goal is to follow the thought process of the detectives.
		Filmed on the streets of Occupied Japan, including the area of an actual fl market, the documentary-like ambiance brings an understanding of impoverished post-war Japan - where rice rationing cards were a premium - and to the characters’ motivations.
		He explains the events that surrounded the making of the film, such as his rage against the false accusation from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that he injected a healthy dog with rabies to get the shot of a fierce-looking, panting dog.
	www.film-forward.com /straydog.html (580 words)

	Stray Dog
		Stray Dog portrays the struggle to create a viable postwar social ethic and shows explicitly what is the personal cost of implementing such an ethic.
		It is by concluding the film with Murakami's hesitation that Kurosawa urges us to remember the past and use memory as a moment of intervening in the present social condition.
		Stray Dog (1949) was inspired by the American film The Naked City (1948), according to interviews with Kurosawa.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/jfilm/straydog.html (1680 words)

	Stray Dogs : film review
		In rescuing the same dog and undertaking to look after it, Gol-Ghotai and Zahed exhibit an empathy that holds out some sort of promise for the future; whereas the film's adult characters, by contrast, seem interested in dogs only for their ability to fight.
		Stronger still, though, is the influence on Stray Dogs of Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief, the film that in the end directly inspires the children's ill-fated criminality.
		Both films could be described as neo-realist, both are set in a background of post-war hardships, and both end tragically (albeit rather differently) with the theft of a bike and a subsequent arrest.
	www.musicomh.com /films/stray-dogs_0706.htm (669 words)

	Investigations of a Dog Art in America - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the start of the chase, the stern senior detective warns that such mined men am stray dogs, to be put down before they turn into mad dogs, but his despondent acolyte pleads for compassion, recalling that in the chaos of 1945 he might easily have become such a dog himself.
		The stray is there again in Susumu Hani's exquisite She and He (1960), this time as the companion of a pathetic ragpicker who is one of the two principals of the story.
		The dog is pretty much this outcast's alter ego, and when at the film's denouement it is hideously tortured by the children of a cell-block town of materialistic salary-men, the man suffers equally, and we with him.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_10_87/ai_56906443 (951 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Stray Dog
		Like in many Kurosawa films, the characters often complain about the unbearable heat that permeates their environment as if it were actively trying to oppress them.
		Stray Dog is a police procedural that expands itself to make sweeping statements about the social meltdowns that redefined its country after World War II.
		The most impressive one is an extended, wordless sequence that occurs near the start of the film where Murakami silently and persistently tracks an accomplice of the pickpocket as she goes about her day.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1949/straydog.htm (580 words)

	Animal Planet :: News :: Dogs Invade Disneyland
		The strays are believed to live in hills and villages surrounding the sprawling park — built in once rolling countryside on an offshore island two miles from the high-rise downtown — and wander in searching for food.
		The dogs were befriended by workers during the site's construction, but as the Sept. 12 opening date neared and the builders left the site, they were left to fend for themselves.
		Wong said she knew of no reports of people being chased by dogs but stressed the company was doing all it could to ease the problem.
	animal.discovery.com /news/afp/20050808/straydogs.html (328 words)

	SaruDama: Stray Dog - Nora Inu (Akira Kurosawa 1949) - Japanese Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stray Dog - Nora Inu (Akira Kurosawa 1949)
		The film Stray Dog, then, is an exploration into Shimura's perspective which suggests that stray dogs eventually become rabid dogs -- in other words, certain types of desolate individuals, when left to their own devices, will inevitably descend into evil.
		In other films, such as Tokyo Dragon or Rainy Dog, RAIN plays such a central role in the film's narrative that it becomes almost a character unto itself.
	www.sarudama.com /japanese_movies/straydog.shtml (1459 words)

	Stray Dog (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the 1991 film by Mamoru Oshii, see Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops.
		Stray Dog is a commentary on the desperate social conditions of post-war Japan.
		The film was twice remade as Nora inu (1973) and Too Much Sleep (1997).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stray_Dog_(film) (294 words)

	IFC Center
		His problem is that his gun has been stolen, pick-pocketed from him by a lady thief on a packed bus; in a country where competence is famously bound to honor, Murakami loses not just his gun on that sweltering bus, but his pride as well.
		It's no accident that it is women who fall victim to this stray dog (a symbol of sexual irresponsibility in itself), nor that it is women exclusively who hold the keys to its recovery.
		THE AURA A film by Fabian Bielinsky NR, Argentina, 2006, 138 MIN 2:45
	www.ifccenter.com /film?filmid=3483 (240 words)

	Great Performances . Kurosawa . STRAY DOG \| PBS
		When I filmed this sequence and edited it according to the passage of chronological time, the effect was terrible.
		The dog was a stray that we had obtained from the pound, where it was about to be put away.
		Because the Japanese were barbarians, injecting a dog with rabies was just the sort of thing we would do, and she had no time for the truth.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/straydog.html (809 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Stray Dog [1949]: Video: Lindsay Felton,Tank the Bear,Patrick Fugit,Shawn Levy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stray Dog gets off to a surprisingly slack start, not helped by some utterly redundant narration that repeats what we have heard in the previous scene and will see in the next.
		A heatwave dominates the whole film, people are bathed in sweat from noon to night,windows are flung open, this contributes to a tense feeling of claustrophobia,many of the characters seem at breaking point.
		Stray Dog is a film about the difference in outlook between a calm, wise but jaded senior figure (Takashi Shimura) and his young impaitentent but more forgiving rookie (Toshiro Mifune).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Stray-Dog-Lindsay-Felton/dp/B000060NZ8 (1061 words)

	Drifting: A Director's Log: The Road To Guantanamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The deeply ingrained riskiness of his films counters the fact that they are, in fact, staged; that, on a basic formal level, they are no different than any other film that bare the 'Based On A True Story' subtitle.
		Interviews with them are both the source of and the backbone to the narrative, and their first person accounts provide the film with some defense against those who will claim that the film is biased dramaturgy.
		On the other hand, Greengrass' film had little to offer aside from its own experience, and The Road To Guantanamo subjugates experience in favor of application; it is designed to open eyes, to make an impact, to inspire an immediate need for change.
	www.road-dog-productions.com /cgi-bin/2006/06/the_road_to_gua.html (693 words)

	Midnight Eye book review: Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii (author: Brian Ruh, publisher: Palgrave ...
		Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii
		As the reception of Innocence at this year's Cannes Film Festival suggests, his recent work requires such a degree of engagement that those in search of conventional plot mechanics, unambiguous characterisation and sense of being confronted in a world readily recognisable to themselves are advised to search elsewhere.
		But for Ruh, Oshii's films are about "the subjectivity inherent in concepts of reality", and thankfully the author makes no secret of his own subjectivity as a viewer.
	www.midnighteye.com /books/stray-dog-of-anime.shtml (1150 words)

	BFI \| Books & DVDs \| DVDs & Videos \| Stray Dog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of his nicknames among his regular collaborators was kazi-otoko (wind-man) because of his penchant for shooting scenes in howling gales that had his actors clinging desperately to the nearest solid object, and anyone familiar with his work will have noticed that no Kurosawa movie is complete without a passage or two of torrential downpour.
		A wordless montage sequence, where Mifune as the young detective, hunting the pickpocket who stole his gun, roams through the sleazy underbelly of Tokyo, is a visual and technical tour de force; but it lasts well over eight minutes, and one cannot help feeling that half the length would have been just as effective.
		However, the film's cumulative power is impressive, and the climax, with the ruthless killer howling abjectly like a punished child, comes with a desolate sense of lives distorted and wasted.
	www.bfi.org.uk:8080 /booksvideo/video/details/straydog/more.html (654 words)

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		His second film as a producer, "Nightsongs", was a participant of Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute Lab before airing on the PBS American Playhouse series and on to a limited theatrical release.
		The look of the film is white trash and inventive, the lead actor is fabulous, and the best idea is to have a universally tragic character who listens to all his favorite tunes from Bellini to country, while crying at the loss of his 11,863 vinyl records.
		The film oscillates between an excercise in style and the quirky world of the Coen brothers, but the comic windfalls of the cast (the hero mixes country and opera on his recordings) incites us to lend an ear to this amiable folly.
	straydogfilm.com (3492 words)

	Recommended Films
		Films consider the role of the media in wartime, ongoing anti-war struggles, and the link between racism, sexual violence, and war as well as other pressing issues.
		Together, the films present a number of perspectives, ranging from the historical to the intimate, in order to illustrate that the United States and its allies participate in war in both official and covert ways.
		This film is an exploration of personal and cultural memory juxtaposed Hollywood images of Japanese Americans and World War II propaganda with stories from the videomaker's family.
	www.incite-national.org /issues/warinfo/films.html (760 words)

	CBBC Newsround \| ANIMALS \| One stray dog put down every hour
		At least one stray dog is killed every hour in the UK according to the animal charity Dogs Trust.
		Dogs Trust says this means the problem can be solved if people start putting more thought into owning a dog.
		They're asking pet owners to neuter their dogs so they don't have puppies, and microchip them so they can be reunited with their owners if they get lost.
	news.bbc.co.uk /cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_3909000/3909553.stm (221 words)

	Stray Dog
		Presenting its simple (by film noir standards), gently unfolding story through a fascinating array of varying film styles, Stray Dog is a veritable compendium of technique, from Soviet montage to 40s Hollywood noir, always rooted in a quasi-documentary closeness to the subject matter which even seems to stray (pun intended) occasionally into cinéma vérité.
		As an entry into the police-procedural film noir canon, Stray Dog seems to create at least as many well-loved genre cliches as it steals: it may well have pioneered the use of live sporting events in movies being intercut with a criminal pursuit, one of Hollywood's favourite stand-bys.
		To call Stray Dog uneven is not really a criticism: with so many different themes and styles being invoked this is something of an inevitability.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /reviews/straydog (368 words)

	stray dog productions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Intended to discover, create, and nourish new independent films and filmmakers, Stray Dog Productions is built on the belief that cinema, as both an art form and an industry, stands on the brink of change.
		That is where Stray Dog Productions will fit into place, we are dedicated to running efficient, professional productions that will rival any multi-million-dollar studio production, but will make films with an unapologetic respect and protection of the artist and their vision.
		Stray Dog Productions is committed to the concept that great films and great cinema come from great stories, ideas, and artistry.
	www.straydogproductions.net (501 words)

	Film Schedule \| Freer and Sackler Galleries
		The film's characters work in the park, which only increases their desire for something larger than their own lives.
		This film directed by Ryuichi Hiroki depicts, with great tenderness and sympathy, the relationship between a reclusive thirty-five-year-old manic depressive and the four men in her life: a self-professed "pervert" she meets on the Internet, a depressed yakuza gangster, an impotent former college classmate, and a cousin dealing with his own personal troubles.
		Filmed with handheld cameras in a stark neorealist style, this film captures the alienation of a generation of young adults increasingly driven to addiction.
	www.asia.si.edu /events/films.asp# (1053 words)

	Prince on Stray Dog
		Prince argues that Kurosawa’s main project is to address the theme of modernity in Japan’s experience, and by extension, Japan’s long, complex relationship with the west.
		Stray Dog addresses the need of society's guardians to renounce their human feelings but also explores the dangers--and the impossibility--of them doing so.
		Prince, then, finds the subject of Stray Dog to be postwar Japan itself and its relationship to Japanese history.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/jfilm/straydogdisc.html (787 words)

	Show Business Weekly: Review: Film: The Cave of the Yellow Dog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The father cuts off the dog’s tail and puts it near the animal's head, so in his next life he will be born as a man with a ponytail.
		This particular summer, she finds a stray dog in a cave and wants to adopt him, much to the chagrin of her father, who is afraid of the dog's possible affiliation to wolves.
		This conflict between father and daughter reflects one of the strongest themes of the film: the broadening gap between generations as traditional nomadic life is confronted by modernization.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/408/film_YellowDog.shtml (559 words)

	Blogging with the Strays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dogs in the park are a present example of something that is often too abstracted or far away to gain our consideration.
		Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
		Stray from the Heart is a non-profit dog rescue organization whose mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and place homeless dogs with loving new families.
	www.strayfromtheheart.org /blog (2862 words)

	Stray Dog of Anime (1403963347) RUH - Palgrave Macmillan
		Stray Dog of Anime is the first book to take an in-depth look at his major films, from the early days working on Urusei Yatsura to Avalon, his most recent feature.
		Stray Dog will be of interest not only to those who want to get to know Mamoru Oshii, but those who presumed they already knew him well.
		These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they were shaped (by and in turn shaped) postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons in the wake of the Godzilla phenomenon.
	www.palgrave-usa.com /catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403963347 (1062 words)

	The Jujube Spotlight - Stray Dog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Starring Toshiro Mifune (Japan's answer to Montgomery Clift), the film follows a rookie policeman whose Colt pistol is stolen on a crowded city bus.
		By contrasting these characters the movie asks what circumstances turn a man into a stray dog — mistrustful, outcast, and desperate — and what forces are capable of keeping him from that path.
		These questions have a universal appeal, and indeed one surprising impression of "Stray Dog" is how accessible its 1940s Tokyo looks to modern American eyes.
	archive.thejujube.com /S/straydog.html (446 words)

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