Synopsis
Shield of Straw (2013) is a Japanese crime thriller from Takashi Miike that you can watch online on iFILM, a competition entry at the Cannes Film Festival.
After his granddaughter is murdered, tycoon Ninagawa does the unthinkable: he buys full-page newspaper ads promising one billion yen to anyone who kills the chief suspect. The man, already convicted of killing a girl years earlier, turns himself in for protection — and now the police have to deliver him alive from Fukuoka to Tokyo. A handful of bodyguards escort the one person an entire nation wants dead, while the bounty tempts even the officers sworn to guard him.
Miike takes a chase-movie skeleton and bends it into a moral trap: what is the law worth when the thing you must protect is loathsome, and killing it pays? Tatsuya Fujiwara plays the prisoner, Takao Osawa the cop who can't afford to flinch. Tense, ugly and short on easy answers. Stream Shield of Straw (2013) online on iFILM.
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