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The area is overrun with competing gangsters who have lost most of their power during the American occupation. Toshiro Mifune - in the first leading role that made him a star - plays Matsunaga, a handsome young hoodlum who one night comes to the doctor's surgery with a small bullet wound in his hand. The doctor treats the wound but also diagnoses Matsunaga as having tuberculosis. The gangster's arrogance prevents him from acknowledging his illness, but his position within his organisation comes increasingly under threat. In 'Stray Dog' (1949) young detective Murakami (Mifune) has his gun stolen and his desperate wish to retrieve it sends him deep into Tokyo's criminal underworld. Meanwhile, the gun is passed from the pickpocket who stole it to a young gangster and is then used in the killing of an innocent woman. 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