This semester’s films will feature film noir from around the world and from a wide period ranging from 1931 to 2006. Besides telling thrilling stories of crime, the underworld, and femmes fatales, these films examine questions of morality, modernity, the battle of the sexes, and the fine line between right and wrong.

7 p.m. Wednesday, Sep. 27, Liberal Arts Building Room 120.

"STRAY DOG (野良犬 NORA INU)", Dir. Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1949, 122 minutes

Murakami (Toshirô Mifune) is a young and inexperienced detective on the Tokyo police force. While riding a crowded bus on a hot summer day, he discovers that his gun has been stolen out of its holster. Reluctant to lose face by reporting the gun missing, Murakami first dives alone into the depths of postwar Tokyo's poverty-stricken slums and criminal underworld, but when the missing gun is implicated in a crime spree, a more experienced detective (Takashi Shimura) lends his expertise.

(synopsis from https://g.co/kgs/CrrAag)

 Free & open to the public.

 Sponsored by The Departments of Comparative Cultural Studies, English, and Global Languages and Cultures and The College of Arts & Letters.

 For more info contact Michael.Rulon@nau.edu or rmg286@nau.edu

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