the shadow strays

A Case For Better Action Movies: Timo Tjahjanto’s THE SHADOW STRAYS Casts A Bright Future For Its Director

I may be of the minority when I say I wish that Timo Tjahjanto‘s latest October Netflix launch, The Shadow Strays, instead released in December as did his previous streaming banger, The Big 4 in 2022. This way, at least The Shadow Strays would feel like a proper Christmas action thriller, and not for nothing either considering the film starts in a snow-driven Yakuza safehouse where a boss with a godcomplex awaits his otherwise imminent demise. The opening action scene alone may well be worth its own whole article, at that, while the film’s current run on Netflix as of last week is now the talk of any and all in the fandom, most notably fans of Tjahjanto who’ve followed the director’s Mo’ Brothers era with a stake in the horror genre that’s conjoined him with the dialogue of Asian film and action cinema fans in the years since Indonesian […]

THE SHADOW STRAYS Official Teaser Brings The Violence Into The Light

Lee B. Golden III

Primed for a Midnight Madness premiere as part of the Toronto International Film Festival in September, director Timo Tjahjanto already has fans foaming for his pending work on the sequel to 2021’s Nobody. At long last though, his latest completed effort now gets a release date in the coming months with The Shadow Strays, signaling folks with a fresh and piping hot new teaser now out and about. Codenamed 13, a 17-year-old trained assassin is currently suspended due to a sloppy mission in Japan. Meeting Monji, an 11-year-old boy who lost his mother to a crime syndicate, awakened her conscience. When Monji is captured, 13 is hell-bent on rescuing him, setting off a path of destruction and defying her mentor and the organization that hires her, known as the Shadow. I can only imagine what could have been if Tjahjanto had his way and made sequels to two of his previous […]

THE SHADOW STRAYS Gets An October Date And New Stills For The Netflix Action Flick

Lee B. Golden III

A small, albeit growing festival audience of late is still recovering from a rare big screen presentation of Timo Tjahjanto’s The Night Comes For Us on Sunday evening. Alas, it is hours later into Monday with the director now keeping the momentum going with a brand new teaser poster signaling an October 17 launch date on Netflix for upcoming thriller, The Shadow Strays. Perfect timing, I’d say. Setting up for four dates following its World Premiere on September 10 at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Shadow Strays stars Aurora Ribero in the role of Codename 13, an assassin sent to Jakarta on disciplinary probation after a botched job in Japan. When she crosses paths with a young boy who runs afoul of a local crime boss, the beleaguered assassin is forced to take matters into her own hands. Check out the stills and new poster below, and stay tuned […]

THE SHADOW STRAYS: Timo Tjahjanto’s Newest Thriller Aims To Please In The First Poster

Lee B. Golden III

Timo Tjahjanto’s newest Indonesian actioner, The Shadow Strays, clocks in at almost the same duration as his previous thriller, The Big 4. Any way you slice, anyone who enjoys his work is gonna have a hell of a time watching it, and that especially goes for the crowd attending the film’s World Premiere in the Midnight Madness section of the 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival next month. At long last now with a trailer inbound, Tjahjanto is keeping up the traction through his teasy social media shenanigans, with the latest being a satisfying new teaser poster which you can view below. The Shadow Strays is yet to be announced a date for its Netflix launch while September 10 and 14 dates have been slated for its Toronto screenings. Peep the ink below just beneath the rousing new programming notes by Peter Kuplowsky: From action auteur Timo Tjahjanto […]

Timo Tjahjanto Returns With Action Thriller THE SHADOW STRAYS For Netflix

Lee B. Golden III

If you’re bewildered any about what director Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes For Us, Headshot) is up to these days, I totally get it. I reckon as much that we can just about deduce all of his priorities down to the project he has at his disposal following his deal with Netflix, and for all intents and purposes, it’s been a worthwhile journey to follow. Between his past work and his solo directorial gigs in the last several years, he’s proven himself more than able to meet the demand, and with any luck, he’s bound to do that again. Enter The Shadow Strays, for one. Announced Thursday by the streamer, production is under way on the action thriller with a cast that reunites him with other select performers from his previous film, The Big 4. Production hails from Frontier Pictures and is produced by Wicky V. Olindo, and Anne P. […]