Most Americans will likely get here because of the rise in popularity of the fantastic soundtrack for this movie done by Yuji Ohno (of Lupin the 3rd fame), so I thought I would try to find and watch this movie to see if the fantastic soundtrack accompanied a fantastic movie. Boy was I wrong!
The cover of The Golden Dog implies a monster movie about a dog, but what I got was a wholly hard to follow violent affair involving Japanese cops and criminals. The movie starts off with a man who comes into possession of a dog after his friend dies in a hunting accident. But, what follows next is a a plot filled with random nonsequitors of crime, and interwoven subplots of various characters with flashbacks. Watch as you are whisked away to various random scenes of a woman being coerced into sex at knifepoint, then to the dog fighting a seal on the beach, gunfire shootouts between a detective investigating previous murders, all while the dog carries microfilm in his collar throughout Japan. A wholly unintelligible movie, and whoever said this was as good is Kurosawa must be joking. Don't waste your time with The Golden Dog, because this one is as good as solid gold doggy doo-doo!
