Shield of Straw

Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a convicted child killer, is wanted again after the murder of a young girl, the granddaughter of the powerful politician Ninagawa (Tsutomu Yamazaki). Ninagawa wants him dead and puts up a reward for the man who does it. Takashi Miike sets two officers, Kazuki Mekari (Takao Osawa) and Atsuko Shiraiwa (Nanako Matsushima), to move Kiyomaru across the country, and what binds them is a duty to protect a man neither can stand.