Product Details

• Actors: Shigeru Chiba, Yoshikazu Fujiki, Takashi Matsuyama, Eaching Sue
• Directors: Mamoru Oshii
• Writers: Mamoru Oshii
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Bandai
• DVD Release Date: November 4, 2003
• Run Time: 125 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000CG8AX
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,647 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Stray Dog" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

The Metropolitan Police’s ultimate crime-fighting unit was an elite squad of men and women known as the Kerberos. A riot and uprising ensues when the unit refuses to acknowledge orders from government officials to disband. At the center of the riot is the leader of the Kerberos squad, Kouichi Todome who escapes after the fighting. Three years later, Inui is released from prison. A member of the Kerberos squad who served jail time for his participation in the riot, he wants nothing more to find his former master. However, the trail to Kouichi is a twisted one, involving a strange woman and a new and unimagined lifestyle. But when he finally finds him, he realizes that, instead of following his own path, he was following the orders of another. KEY SALES POINT

* From one of the premier directors of Japanese Cinema - Director Mamoru Oshii
* Live Action Theatrical Feature
* Anamorphic Widescreen
DVD Features:
Interactive Animated Menus

Dolby Digital Surround Sound

Japanese Language

English subtitles option

DVD Extras:

Theatrical Trailer

Mamoru Oshii's Stray Dog Text

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was expecting., November 10, 2004

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Monsieur Mouton "M. Montgomery" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stray Dog (DVD)

Mamoru Oshii has put out pretty impressive videos, this is not one of them.
The main character pursues his old master (like a Stray Dog.. ) who left his unit behind. Throughout the entire movie all he does is walk down streets (they even walk the same streets over pointlessly ) , occasionally bumping into a guy that feels life can be summed up in his "Stray Dog philosophy", then eating, then walking around some more. All the while a horrible piano tune plays.

Don't let the cover fool you, there really isn't many kerberos panzer cops in this movie. It's not until the very end does the main character put on his nifty leather armor and mow through baddies, which was about the only exciting part of the movie (no cheesy piano music either!).

Not much of a plot, predictable, and boring. If you're interested in Mamoru's live action movies Avalon is better. If you absolutely have to have something with kerberos cops in it try Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Expect The Stray Unexpected Dog, January 15, 2009

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Pauly Paranthropus (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stray Dog (DVD)

Straw Dog is unlike any movie that I have seen. Like many people, I expected an intense action film after seeing "Jim Roh", Mamoru Oshi's animated masterpiece but the bulk of "Straw Dogs" is a beautiful, poetic mediation on trust and betrayal with plenty of sublime imagery. At first, I was put off by the main character Ishi seemingly directionless journey in China to find his former master from the Capital Police (the heavily armored Kerberos who were disbanded 3 years before).

With action at both ends of the film, the middle can seem boring unless you transcend the action movie expectations. It's full of serene sea-side beauty and some interesting shots of a Chinese village. There is some great action and violence at the end that's a bit confusing as to who Ishi's adversaries are but it's worth the wait.