117 minute running time so 20 minutes too long … Kurosawa movie, neat to see post-War Japan, how down and out it was, but getting back to normal (the ball game footage priceless) … story was sort of interesting at first (a homicide detective has his gun pickpocketed on a bus) … Toshiro Mifune is gorgeous (which may partially explain the Farr reco) and his relationship with the older cop is well done, but the movie could have been tightened up a lot … I get why it’s a “classic,” but it doesn’t get the nod from me.