Shield of Straw - Proteggi l'assassino

A Tokyo winter wind rattled subway grates as a child’s backpack lay abandoned near a crime scene. Ninagawa’s granddaughter was found dead hours after Kunihide Kiyomaru slipped from a high-security courthouse, his name already scrawled on police files from another unsolved killing. A yakuza noir that trades flash for chill—Miike’s shibboleth of a thriller.

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Takashi Miike directed Shield of Straw - Proteggi l'assassino in 2013. See Takashi Miike's full filmography, where to start with Takashi Miike, or where to go after you've seen everything by Takashi Miike.

Shield of Straw - Proteggi l'assassino was released in 2013 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 125 minutes.