Japanese Film "Stray Dog" to be Screened on November 20, 2009
1949 Film Directed by Akira Kurosawa
ALBANY, NY (11/05/2009)(readMedia)-- "Stray Dog" ("Nora inu" Japan, 1949, 122 minutes, b/w, in Japanese with English subtitles, directed by Akira Kurosawa) will be shown on Friday, November 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, the screening is free and open to the public.
Major director Akira Kurosawa established an enduring claim to the American "film noir" genre with this suspenseful tale. A young homicide detective loses his gun to a pickpocket on a Tokyo bus and embarks on a frantic search to the darkest corners of the city's criminal underworld to regain not only the gun but also his pride.
For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
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