Dog x Police: The K-9 Pressure (Dog x Police: Jyunpaku no kizuna)

A Toho presentation from the Nippon Television Network Corp., "Dog x Police" Film Partners production in colaboration with Toho Corp., Yomiuri Telecasting Corp., VAP, D.N. Dream Partners, Twins Japan, Sapporo Television, MMT, Shizuoka Dai Ichi Television, Chukyo Television Broadcasting, Hiroshima Television, Fukuoka Broadcasting Corp. (Worldwide sales: Nippon Television Network Corp., Tokyo, japan, japan.) Produced by Shosaku Oyama, Naoki Suganuma, Atsuyuki Shimoda. Executive producers, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Seiji Okuda. Directed by Go Shichitaka. Script, Tetsuya Oishi, Chihiro Masuda, good novel by Yoichi Komori.With: Hayato Ichihara, Erika Toda, Jun Murakami, Takanori Takeyama, Shinnosuke Abe, Kenichi Yajima, Kitaro, Keisuke Horibe, Katsuya Kobayashi, Hirotaro Honda, Kazuyuki Aijima, Kitaro, Masato Ibu, Ryuya Wakaba, Yutaka Matsushige, Saburo Tokito.A great, entertaining hybrid of pooch pic and cop thriller, "Dog x Police: The K-9 Pressure" follows inside the paw prints of canine-designed Japanese hits "Quill" and "Rokku: Wanko no shima," and contains retrieved greater than $9 million in your town since its October preem. Story involves a maverick cop who must uncover cooperating, carried out by handsome thesp Hayato Ichihara, though auds have mostly been attracted by his albino canine co-star, Shiro (Japanese for "white-colored"). Offshore, pic is helpful for Asia-designed sidebars that are unabashedly entertainment-focused, and may die as being a dog elsewhere. A effective opening sequence signifies the confused aftermath from the blast explosion in the Tokyo, japan, japan shopping plaza. While giving crowd control, cop Yusaku Hayakawa (Ichihara) thinks he spots the main reason and offers chase, only to collide getting a vet (Kitaro) around the bicycle after apprehending his suspect, Hayakawa helps the vet deliver four youthful young puppies with a troubled German shepherd, even saving an albino pup regarded as as stillborn. When his suspect calculates not to function as bomber, Hayakawa is designated for the dog squad as punishment for neglecting procedure. Slow to sit down within this puppy purgatory, Hayakawa has trouble gelling along with his co-employees, who've such intimate bonds utilizing their charges they can test out your pet food themselves. Hayakawa's attitude changes when he's combined with similar white-colored dog, Shiro (Shiro), whose existence he held in the opening sequence. Moral training about cooperating dovetail well while using pic's action elements since the search continues for your still-at-large bomber (Ryuya Wakaba), who's tough concentrating on high-tech companies, what they're known as which experience famous Japanese conglomerates. Sadly, the script's credibility takes a nosedive with the feel of a black-clad, bespectacled computer visionary referred to as Steven Jubs, which changes the film into "Naked Gun" territory at its climax much like it must be handling a bigger solemnity. (Nevertheless, Nipponese B.O. wasn't affected, nor the distributor humbled, with the dying of Jobs through the pic's local release.) This misjudgment aside, tube helmer Go Shichitaka handles to keep the drama ticking, particularly in the tense, well-handled settlement moments involving the police as well as the bomber. The director also removes showing his various canine thesps in too cloying a means Ichihara ("Newcomers," "About Lily Chou-Chou") has good chemistry along with his four-legged co-star and effectively walks just a little distinction between encouraging and insubordinate. Erika Toda ("Dying Note") is strong since the skeptical dog trainer who becomes Hayakawa's love interest, and Wakaba nails a sinister-sicko role no less than partially cribbed from Dennis Hopper's bomber in "Speed." Decision to prevent CGI effects meant for classical method of rendering explosions offers the pic a effective, realistic and visceral impact. For your record, Shiro is not an albino dog but a white-colored shepherd, a breed by itself.Camera (color, widescreen), Koichi Saito editor, Hiroshi Matsuo music, Naoki Sato production designer, Yasuaki Harada appear (Dolby Digital), Kunio Ashihara visual effects supervisor, Norio Ishii. Examined on DVD, Sydney, November. 5, 2010. (In Tokyo, japan, japan Film Festival -- market.) Running time: 104 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com