Trivia for
Nora inu (1949) More at IMDbPro »

• Debut of actor/stuntman Haruo Nakajima.
  
  
• During the opening credits, there is footage of a panting dog. However, when American censors saw the footage, they assumed that the dog had been harmed. This run-in with American censors caused Kurosawa to remark that this was the only time he wished Japan had not lost WWII.
  
  
• The gun, which is the object of a search in the film, is a .25 caliber Colt model 1908 hammerless Vest Pocket Automatic.
  
  
• The debut film of Minoru Chiaki and his first (of ten) directed by Akira Kurosawa.
  
  

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