# Shield of Straw (2013)

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**Original title**: *藁の楯 わらのたて*
**Runtime**: 125 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Crime
**Directed by**: Takashi Miike
**Written by**: Tamio Hayashi
**Starring**: Nanako Matsushima, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takao Osawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masatô Ibu, Goro Kishitani

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, raw

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