Dog×Police | |
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Directed by | Go Shichitaka |
Produced by | Takahiro Sato |
Starring |
Hayato Ichihara Erika Toda Jun Murakami Takanori Takeyama Shinnosuke Abe Saburo Tokito |
Production company | Japan NTV |
Distributed by | Toho |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $8,976,044 [1] |
Dog×Police is a 2011 Japanese film directed by Go Shichitaka, [2] about a special division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department which uses trained dogs in cases of terrorism, violent crime, and rescue missions. [3] [4] The film is based on the novel by Yoichi Komori. [5]
Yusaku Hayakawa ( Hayato Ichihara) dreamed of one day becoming a detective. Instead, he now works as a trainer for police dogs at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. One day, Yusaku gets an Albino Shepherd named Shiro whom others say can never become a police dog due to a genetic disorder. Nevertheless, Yusaku and Shiro become attached as he trains Shiro to become a guard dog. Sometimes guard dogs are treated as equipment and other times required to become a human shield, but Yusaku and female police officer Natsuki ( Erika Toda) are against this. A series of explosions then take place as a serial bomber strikes Tokyo.