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This stylized, non-samurai work from Kurosawa is an intense police thriller set in a seamy, war-ravaged Tokyo. Mifune plays a rookie detective who loses his gun to a pickpocket and, fearing the pistol will fall into the hands of a killer, begins a desperate search through the underworld in an attempt to find the pistol and the thief. An under-appreciated murder mystery from the master of Japanese cinema. (Japanese with English subtitles)