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1. #001

   The opening title sequence shows a panting dog. When American censors saw the footage, however, they assumed the dog had been harmed. This encounter with the American censors led Akira Kurosawa to say it was the only time he wished Japan had not lost World War II.

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2. #002

   The film's symbolic use of weather is evident in its depiction of Japan under a sunny heat wave, which leads some characters to predict rain. In the scene where Murakami gets the feeling that something bad will happen, the sunny weather turns into a pattern of dark grey, cloudy sky. As the plot intensifies toward the end of the film, a heavy downpour begins in the sky.

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3. #003

   In his 1982 memoir, Akira Kurosawa states that Keiko Awaji, who played the stray dog's girlfriend, was a 16-year-old dancer with no prior acting experience when she was cast, and that like many spoiled teenagers she proved difficult and rebellious on set. When the script was written she could not or did not cry, so in a scene where her character sheds bitter, regretful tears at her mother's feet, her wailing is clearly dubbed. Kurosawa also says that as shooting neared completion he began to notice how unprofessionally Awaji behaved and how little interest she took in the work, but that it was too late and her role was finished. Awaji appeared in more than 100 films before her death in 2014.

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4. #004

   The shooting experience was apparently so enjoyable that Akira Kurosawa recalled that most of the crew offered to work through the night.

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5. #005

   Akira Kurosawa wrote the screenplay together with Ryûzô Kikushima, a writer who had never written a screenplay before. The pair collaborated a dozen more times before a serious problem arose in 1969.

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6. #006

   As an exercise to help him build the screenplay for the crime story he envisioned, Akira Kurosawa wrote a version of this film's story in the form of an unpublished novel. (This decision also reflects the fact that the plot was inspired by the novels of Belgian writer Georges Simenon, whom Kurosawa greatly admired, and that he wrote the novel in Simenon's style.) But when he finished the novel in six weeks and began the screenplay, the director was surprised to discover that this made writing the screenplay not easier but harder, because of the great differences between the novel and cinema, and he had to rethink the story. The experience was not wasted, however, since by his account he had learned how to incorporate certain features unique to the novel form into the film in cinematic terms.

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7. #007

   When Sato meets a geisha named Kintaro, he jokes about how good she would look with an axe. Kintaro is a very popular folk hero in Japan, and many people decorate for Children's Day (especially for boys) with Kintaro dolls. According to the folk tale, Kintaro or "Golden Boy" has superhuman strength, was raised by a mountain witch, and always has two things with him on his adventures: an apron bearing the symbol "gold" and his axe.

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8. #008

   The film was not released in the US until 1963.

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9. #009

   The gun sought in the film is a .25 caliber Colt Model 1908 Hammerless Vest Pocket Automatic.

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10. #010

    Although the story's central subject is a semi-automatic pistol, the film's Swedish title is "Revolvern" ("The Revolver").

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11. #011

    The stolen 50,000 yen would have been equal to about $358 at the time, which is equivalent to roughly $4,600 in 2023.

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12. #012

    It was the debut of actor/stuntman Haruo Nakajima.

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13. #013

    The film is part of spine number 233 of the Criterion Collection.

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14. #014

    It was the debut of actress Keiko Awaji.

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15. #015

    It was Isao Kimura's first Akira Kurosawa film.

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