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Go Spotting: Kurusawa's "Stray Dog"

"In the 1949 movie 'Stray Dog' Toshiro Mifune plays a homicide detective looking a criminal," writes David Matson. "Ten minutes before the end he scans a room for suspects. The two men who best fit the description are both in their late 20's, wearing white linen suits and white hats with wide black bands. Both men are reading newspapers. One man has an open-collared white dress shirt with no tie, sunglasses and a watch on his left wrist. The other has a crew-neck sweater with horizontal stripes. I watched this on Hulu, viewed on a small laptop, but I think both newspapers showed go game diagrams (different games)."