After the war, it was discovered that portions of Sanshiro Sugata's original negative had been lost. Approximately 17 of the film's original 97 minutes had inexplicably vanished, and the film was reconstructed in 1952 (for theatrical reissue) to its present form. Because of the lost footage, wordy titles fill in the blanks of its narrative. While the addition of explanatory title cards is admirable, it does little to enhance the incomplete film, which perhaps would have been better without them. All the critical scenes appear in tact, though supporting characters do tend to come and go rather abruptly at times
Stuart Gilbraith IV
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By the time Kurosawa was making films like Yojimbo and Sanjuro in the 1960s, he appointed Kikushima his producer. They would write a dozen scripts together before they had a bitter parting of the ways in 1969. In the chapter on Stray Dog in Kurosawa's autobiography, Kikushima goes unmentioned.
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