“The excitement you feel when you watch the movie today: it’s the thrill of seeing a great filmmaker come of age.”
—The Current
“The greatest living example of all that an author of the cinema should be.”
—Federico Fellini on Akira Kurosawa
Toshiro Mifune stars as a young cop whose pistol is stolen by a pickpocket on a streetcar and who spends the film in a state of high agitation trying to recover the gun as it makes a deadly transit through the underworld in Akira Kurosawa’s white-knuckle thriller.
