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* '''Movie:''' Alley Cat<br />
* '''Romaji:''' Dora-heita<br />
* '''Japanese:''' どら平太<br />
* '''Director:''' [[Kon Ichikawa]]<br />
* '''Writer:''' [[Kon Ichikawa]]], [[Keisuke Kinoshita]], [[Masaki Kobayashi]], [[Akira Kurosawa]], [[Shugoro Yamamoto]] (novel)<br />
* '''Producer:''' Yoshinobu Nishioka <br />
* '''Cinematographer:''' Yukio Isohata<br />
* '''Release Date:''' May 13, 2000<br />
* '''Runtime:''' 111 min.<br />
* '''Studio:''' [[Nikkatsu]]<br />
* '''Distributor:''' [[Toho]]<br />
* '''Language:''' Japanese<br />
* '''Country:''' Japan<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Mochizuki Koheita ([[Koji Yakusho]]), is a Samurai magistrate sent to clean up a corrupt, crime-ridden town. Prostitution, gambling and other illegal activity dominate the town and three Samurais, sent to sort out the problems have mysteriously disappeared. <br />
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Nicknamed “Dora Heita” or “Alley Cat”, a creature no less cunning than the human ego, the magistrate cleverly cultivates a reputation for being lax, interested only in drinking and other debauched activities. He does not show up at his office, leaving his secretaries waiting, recording their wait every day in the official paperwork.<br />
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But sure enough, Dora Heita's lack of ego and pureness of mind pay off. His visits to the town's gambling houses and brothels provide him with ample information about the gangs and, more importantly, the political figures in the council behind the rackets. One by one his enemies begin to expose themselves ...<br />
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==Notes==<br />
# Based on novel "Dora-Heita" (Diary of a Town Magistrate) by Shugoro Yamamoto.<br />
# In 1969, Ichikawa teamed up with three fellow veterans to create the independent company Yonki-no-Kai, aka The Four Musketeers. His partners were Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi and Keisuke Kinoshita. "Dora-Heita", based on Shugoro Yamamoto's novel, was written by all of them and intended as a collective project. But the box-office failure of Kurosawa's Dodes'kaden put their project on hold, until Ichikawa made the film 30 years later.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Koji Yakusho]] - Koheita Mochizuki / Dora-Heita<br />
* [[Yuko Asano]] - Kosei<br />
* [[Bunta Sugawara]] - Nadahachi<br />
* [[Ryudo Uzaki]] - Giyoro Senba<br />
* [[Tsurutaro Kataoka]] - Hanzo Yasukawa<br />
* [[Saburo Ishikura]]<br />
* [[Renji Ishibashi]] - Saibei<br />
* [[Tsuyoshi Ujiki]]<br />
* [[Isao Bito]]<br />
* [[Hideji Otaki]]<br />
* [[Shigeru Koyama]]<br />
* [[Takeshi Kato]]<br />
* [[Noboru Mitani (1932)|Noboru Mitani]] - Government Official Ochiai<br />
* [[Masane Tsukayama]] - Tatewaki Sato<br />
* [[Kyoko Kishida]]<br />
* [[Nekohachi Edoya]]<br />
* [[Shiro Go (1947)|Shiro Go]]<br />
* [[Kyoko Yanagihara]]<br />
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