Takashi Shimura
"Stray Dog" holds a 95% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 7.42/10. At the 1950 Mainichi Film Concours it won awards for Best Actor (Takashi Shimura), Best Film Score (Fumio Hayasaka), Best Cinematography (Asakazu Nakai) and Best Art Direction (Sō Matsuyama). The film was included on "Kinema Junpo" "Best Ten" of the year at third place. In 2009 the film was voted at No. 10 on the list of "The Greatest Japanese Films of All Time" by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo.