Stray Dog (1949) - (Movie Clip) I Have No Excuse
Ending director Akira Kurosawa's opening credits, framed entirely over a tight shot of a panting dog, working from his own unpublished novel, based on a real incident, introducing distraught detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune) who's lost his gun, in desolate post-war Tokyo, in Stray Dog, 1949.