Film

Shield of Straw

2013 · 2h 5m · Thriller · Crime · Action

IMDb

6.2

Rotten Tomatoes

45%

Metacritic

35

Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.

Nanako Matsushima

Atsuko Shiraiwa

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Kunihide Kiyomaru

Takao Osawa

Kazuki Mekari

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Ninagawa

Masatô Ibu

Kenji Sekiya

Goro Kishitani

Takeshi Okumura

Kento Nagayama

Masaki Kamihashi

Hirotaro Honda

Ohki

Kazuya Takahashi

Gō Ibuki

Takuma Otoo

Kenji Nagae

Wataru Shihôdô

Kazuyoshi Ozawa

Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Yasukaze Motomiya

• Takashi MiikeDirector
• Tamio HayashiScreenplay
• Kazuhiro KiuchiNovel
• Misako SakaProducer
• Naoaki KitajimaProducer
• Shigeji MaedaProducer
• Seiji OkudaExecutive Producer
• Tomoko JoExecutive Producer
• William IretonExecutive Producer
• Hiroyoshi KoiwaiExecutive Producer

Shield of Straw (Wara no tate) teaser trailer - Takashi Miike-directed movie

Release date

April 25, 2013

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 5m

Rated

16

Revenue

$17,876,628

Genres

Thriller, Crime, Action, Drama

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