to break up with them after filming was completed. Release Stray Dog was distributed theatrically by Toho in Japan on 17 October 1949. The film received a theatrical release in the United States by Toho International with English subtitles on August 31, 1963. Reception Stray Dog holds a 95% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 7.90/10. At the 1950 Mainichi Film Concours it won awards for Best Actor (Takashi Shimura), Best Film Score (Fumio Hayasaka), Best Cinematography (Asakazu Nakai) and Best Art Direction (Sō Matsuyama). The film was included on Kinema Junpo "Best Ten" of the year at third place. In 2009 the film was voted at No. 10 on the list of The Greatest Japanese Films of All Time by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo. Remake The film was remade in 1973, under the name Nora inu, for Shochiku. It was later remade for television in 2013. References Sources External links Excess in Stray Dog an essay by Chris Fujiwara at the Criterion Collection Stray Dog at the Japanese Movie Database 1949 films 1940s crime thriller films Japanese black-and-white films Japanese crime thriller films 1940s Japanese-language films Film noir Films directed by Akira Kurosawa Films set in Tokyo Films shot in Tokyo Police detective films Procedural films Films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa Films with screenplays by Ryuzo Kikushima Films scored by Fumio Hayasaka Films produced by Sōjirō Motoki 1940s police procedural films Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in fiction Shintoho films Japanese detective films