Stray Dog (野良犬)

This movie participated in the 1973 Arts Festival

A SHOCHIKU PRESENTATION

You idiots! Do you want to die?

STRAY DOG

Based on a Script by: Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima

Production: Shigemi Sugisaki Screenplay: Baku Isshiki

Cinematography: Kenichi Yoshikawa Art Direction: Yukitoshi Sato Music: Masaru Sato

Audio Recording: Toshio Tanaka Lighting: Minoru Yakame

CAST

Tetsuya Watari

Shinsuke Ashida

Keiko Matsuzaka Taro Shigaki

Kunie Tanaka, Ichiro Zaitsu Tadao Nakamaru, Mako Midori

Machiko Nakajima, Yoshiro Uchida Rinichi Yamamoto, Harue Akagi Koji Moritsugu

Taiji Tonoyama, Noriko Sengoku Kumeko Urabe, Gajiro Satoh Masami Horiuchi

Moriji Uehara, Haruyoshi Yamashiro Masakichi Azama, Masaharu Kasuya

Directed by: Azuma Morisaki

Don't do it!

Open bullet magazines!

What?! They took your handgun?

Hello?! Where did it happen?

Hello? Hello?!

Injury incident! Injury incident!

Injury incident!

On the street of Okubo-cho, Meguro. Emergent deployment requested!

Roger!

Hey, you, wait. Where are you heading to?

- We want to ask you a few questions. - The hell do you want?

- We just want a quick word with you. - What?

Let us go!

We just want to have a quick chat with you.

Hey, keep your hands to yourself.

We just want to have a talk with you.

What's that? Where are you taking us?

- They have nothing to do with you! - Let me go!

What did we do?

- Calm down! - Stop that!

Tell me, why the hell are you on this special assignment mission?

Metropolitan Police Department says to ask the competent authority.

The competent authority says to ask the Metropolitan Police Department.

You can't get much out of it!

I have a report to be made!

The plate number of the motorcycle used in the crime "Ko Kawasaki 908"

has not been registered.

Probably a counterfeit number.

At present, no fingerprints have been found at the scene

that could belong to the perpetrators.

You couldn't even find, at least, one fingerprint?

Only one, from the motorbike.

- It was... - Who was that?

Yours.

Officer Murakami of the Megami Police Station, right?

"21 August 1973, around 7:20 pm".

"I'm here to investigate a member of the Otomo Kai, named Kosaka",

"a suspect of assault and illegal possession of a firearm".

"A woman passed by on a street in Okubo-cho",

"Meguro-ku, Tokyo, named Toshiko Kawashima, 23 years old..."

Are you sure you've questioned her?

Yes...

"Then, several men, believed to be habitual snatch-and-run criminals",

"drove a motorcycle and a passenger car with Yokohama license plate "5 SA 380".

"They split up, approached from an unidentified Caroline",

"at the end of the road, and attacked the victim".

In an attempt to rescue the victim, you pulled out a handgun.

Did you identify if any of the other party carried any weapons?

Well... But I had a hunch that...

A hunch? This isn't an investigation unit.

Don't forget that your case is now in the custody

of the main office of the Inspection Division.

I'm going to ask you one more time.

Did you consider the situation to be one of self-defense at that time?

What do you think?

If you're not careful, your attacker will be found to have acted in self-defense.

I am prepared to accept any punishment. I don't care if I will be dismissed.

But I'm a detective until I'm sacked!

Please, allow me to be a part of the investigation!

You are aware of the rule that investigators,

who have a direct interest in a case, are removed from it.

Mr. Sato...

Well, go and wash your hands already.

Chief, we're going to take a little walk together now.

Together? With Murakami?

Yes, I've worked with Murakami before.

Besides, he's the only witness so far.

An on-duty police officer's gun was taken,

and a completely innocent passer-by was injured.

Fortunately, it ended in an injury.

If this was a murder, the newspapers would have written about it,

and it would spill over into the removal of the police superintendent.

You've had quite a bad day...

- Is my punishment a dismissal, after all? - I wonder...

Unfortunately, I'm not a university-educated inspector.

- Why don't we go for a little walk? - What?

I'm taking you into protective custody from today.

That means I have to follow you wherever you go.

I was told that I could get old number plates from you.

If you go to a demolition yard, you'll find lots of plate numbers rotting away.

No one returns the license plate number and reports after the vehicle is scrapped.

I see... So, they're rotting away, huh?

For you, detectives, I'd say.

Nowadays, anyone who does anything wrong with a car,

with a registration plate number that can be tracked, is a very stupid person.

Then, the guy who searches for the owner by plate number is even dumber.

You can say so!

Alrighty, alrighty, calm down!

By the way, how much would you charge for a plate at your place?

Huh? Don't talk to me like that!

I would never do such a bad thing!

I'm just joking. My bad, my bad.

Alrighty, alrighty, calm down...

That's an awful joke!

- Darling. - What do you want?

Why are you always getting into something at your age?

Shall I go and check through all car scrappers?

Leave that to the special investigators.

- Let's go for a little walk. - Any idea what's going on?

I know that car with the Yokohama plate number "5 SA 380",

which was scrapped two months ago.

If what the old man says is right, some people do the wrong thing

by leaving their cars to be scrapped without any inspection.

- What's the matter? - Nothing.

I remembered there was some kind of yellow symbol on the front of the car.

Well, the cool breeze on the shore will remind you of it.

Let's go.

I guess it's much cooler here...

Let's see. Tsukuda Pharmacy...

Welcome. How can I help you?

Sorry to bother you, but could we ask you some questions about Mr. Saburo Tsukuda?

What's the matter with my brother?

Your brother had a car, didn't he?

Grey Caroline, as I recall.

I don't know... He went to university in Tokyo and never came back.

He hasn't come around here at all.

- What is his address in Tokyo? - I wonder...

In which university does he study?

I don't know more besides that.

Anyway, we haven't seen each other for a long time.

I smell something fishy...

Yeah...

Sabu? Saburo, are you here?

Sorry about earlier...

Is this where your brother sleeps?

Yes.

Alone?

No, with four or five of his friends.

What kind of friends?

They get together, play guitar, sing songs.

Where is your brother now?

I'd be grateful if you could join us.

We just wanted to meet you and ask you some questions.

I don't think it has anything to do with your brother, though.

No!

Probably, my brother is the culprit.

He was making a fuss this evening

about paying something off to the police officer.

What did he pay for?

My brother was in secondary school.

Our parents left us early and I took over my mother's role.

I was thinking of the police to take my unruly brother under their control.

I asked the police to take him in.

As soon as I got back from the police, my brother hit me.

"Don't look at me like you're looking at an animal!"

Then, he punched me in the eye.

I can't help but remember the look in my brother's eyes at that moment...

I see...

Where did your brother go?

I believe, to the Kamakura Jazz Festival.

I'd be happy to accompany you, but, you see, I...

Besides, I probably wouldn't recognize my brother if I saw him.

For the last ten years, I've only heard his voice, but didn't look at his face.

I've tried not to look into that boy's eyes.

Which one of you is Saburo Tsukuda? Is that you?

I don't know...

- You? - That's not me, you're mistaken...

Stand up!

You recognize my face, don't you?

I saw this yellow symbol very well on the front of your car.

You're under arrest on suspicion of gun heist and assault.

What? Isn't that an awful lot?

You see, our marked car

was stolen last night.

Is that so?

I've heard something about you guys paying off to the police.

Hey, Mr. Detective, I'm Saburo Tsukuda.

But what the hell did we pay for?

Don't you have to see it to know it?

For this thing.

Anyway, let's get them to the station.

Hey... come on!

- What's that? - Right.

This is what we paid for.

We really wanted to get rid of that pistol.

Why don't you sit down?

It looks like this pile of crap had been cleared up.

It wasn't really because of these suspects, but due to their mentioning

that Caroline was found with the danger signs that was used to commit the crime.

We also found Hoshi's fingerprints.

All we have to do now is to track down the suspects

in the Yokohama-Kawasaki area, which I know quite well.

It won't take more than two days to arrest them all.