Shield of Straw

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 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 was released in 2013 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 125 minutes.