Again, Toshiro Mifune takes the leading role in an emotionally intense Kurosawa film. Mifune plays a detective, Murakami, who has his gun stolen by a pick-pocket on a bus. While this might seem rather unearth-shaking to an American audience in a society where guns are illegal, this problem would be huge. Mifune's character becomes obsessed with tracking down his stolen gun as news of people murdered with the same one show up in to the police headquarters. Each bullet in the gun weighs heavily on his conscious. Murakami is determined to do whatever it takes to retrieve his gun from the hands it has fallen into and to put a stop to the deaths that he feels responsible for. In this clip we see Murakami explaining to his superior about how he lost his gun. He uses very humble speech and honorifics when addressing his superior. The tension of explaining such a large mistake is painfully obvious in the first part of the clip. To contrast, the second part of the clip shows Murakami, undercover, stalking through the streets of Tokyo. In order to infiltrate a small arms ring, he must wander the streets looking for leads as a poorly dressed unkempt man. The sweaty, unshaven detective staggers through the streets as his obsession for his gun grows and grows. He is mostly ignored by the "normal" citizens of Tokyo and slowly assimilates into the underground culture of Tokyo. One can see the difference in how Murakami presents himself and how is received by other Japanese people. The two parts of the clip provide a brief glimpse of the extremes that Kurosawa examines during one of his cultural and social commentary on post-war Japan.