Shield of Straw
The debut novel by comic artist turned crime fiction author Kazuhiro Kiuchi, and more recently the inspiration for the 2013 Cannes Film Palm D'Or finalist movie by legendary film director Takeshi Miike. Shield of Straw is a heart-racing thriller that turns a whole nation against one man for vengeance and greed.
A Dog in Water
Hard-boiled crime fiction turns its gaze to Tokyo to a world that is outside of the yakuza, and onto a world of finance, power and drug use. Screen writer Kazuhiro Kiuchi retools this genre, a Japanese favorite, for a new generation of readers and a global audience.