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What really makes Harikomi fascinating to watch is its very progressive social critique, in particular on the marginalization and abuse of women.

Stray Dog Stray Dog portrays the struggle to create a viable postwar social ethic and shows explicitly what is the personal cost of implementing such an ethic. . . takes as its subject postwar Japan and becomes a kind of epic of national reconstruction. . . Both Stray Dog and Drunken Angel clealy demonstrate the difficulties Kurosawa's aesthetic project in response to postwar Japan. The ...