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.) I thought I would try to find and watch this movie. The cover implies a monster movie about a dog. 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. What follows next is a a plot filled with random nonsequitors of crime, and interwoven subplots of various characters with flashbacks. Watch as tou 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.