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Jigoku no Banken: Kerubersu

Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops
Stray Dogs

Japan 1991
directed by Mamoru Oshii
starring Shigeru Chiba, Yoshikazu Fujiki, Eaching Sue, Takashi Matsuyama
written by Mamoru Oshii, music by Kenji Kawai

Kerberos Saga

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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When the Kerberos Panzer Cops, a highly armed and armored special riot police unit, were disbanded, a handful of cops refused to lay down their weapons, and they were thus outlawed, hunted down and jailed. But some, like Koichi (Shigeru Chiba), a commander of the unit, managed to get away.

Inui (Yoshikazu Fujiki), a former Kerberos Panzer Cop who was released from prison rather quickly, is hired by Hayasa (Takashi Matsuyama), a mysterious man in white, to track down Koichi, whom he describes like a stray dog that has to be taken care of. But actually, he sees Inui as the stray dog who feels an urgent need to return to his master, even if the master has abandoned him.

Inui is quick to make contact with Tang Mie (Eaching Sue), Koichi's girlfriend in Taiwan, and after a journey that takes the two of them through half the country, they find Koichi, who has become a rice farmer. He invites the two of them to stay with him, which Tang Mie does out of affection, Inui because he sees Koichi as his master, and he himself is merely the dog who has returned to him.

After weeks of working in the fields for meagre wages, Hayasa shows up and asks Inui to lure Koichi into a trap, and he is trying to replace Koichi as Inui's master. Inui, always loyal, steals Koichi's battle gear from the Kerberos Panzer Cop-days though and takes out Hayasa's entire army of hitmen, but not without losing his own life.

At the ending, Koichi packs his battle gear and heads back to Japan to have some revenge.

 

Before Stray Dog, director Mamoru Oshii has mainly but not exclusively been known as a anime director and manga writer (he has also created the multi-media Kerberos Saga this film is a part of), and the influences show: In many shots, the camera remains static while the characters are only allowed minimal movement, as if they were recreating comicbook panels, several aspects of the story are intentionally exaggerated just like one would do in a comicbook or anime, the film's rhythm changes dramatically even in action scenes, which is almost a trademark of the anime as such, and many grotesque details seem oddly out of place in a live-action-movie. In Stray Dog, this all falls together to a fascinating piece of film that's entertainingly unlike anything you've ever seen, and that's only emphasized on by action sequences that are shot in a totally unlikely way, often leaving the main action out of the picture in favour of some weird details, and the characters constantly posing instead of really getting into the scene.

So this film is fascinating, yes ... but is it a great movie?

Unfortunately, no.

Sure, for the most part, Stray Dog is unlike anything you've ever seen, but at the same time, it drags on a little bit too long, it suffers from its intentionally slow pacing, tries too hard to make its point. That's not to say Stray Dog is a bad movie though, far from it, but it'snot a masterpiece, more of a diamond in the rough.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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