Akira Kurosawa first rose to prominence as a director during the 1940s, with perhaps his first great (or at least close to great) film being 1949’s Stray Dog. He really came into his own during ...

Kurosawa, of course, also established the modern police procedural with his early classic, Stray Dog, which also serves as the archetypal buddy-cop movie. Akira Kurosawa Reflects on Post-War Japan ...