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Shield of Straw

Original title: 藁の楯 わらのたて

  • Movie
  • 2013
  • 2h 5m

Directed by Takashi Miike

6.4

TMDB audience rating
6.4 out of 10 from 121 votes

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Overview

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.

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Cast and crew

  • Nanako Matsushima

    Nanako MatsushimaAtsuko Shiraiwa

  • Tatsuya Fujiwara

    Tatsuya FujiwaraKunihide Kiyomaru

  • Takao Osawa

    Takao OsawaKazuki Mekari

  • Tsutomu Yamazaki

    Tsutomu YamazakiNinagawa

  • Masatô Ibu

    Masatô IbuKenji Sekiya

  • Goro Kishitani

    Goro KishitaniTakeshi Okumura

  • Kento Nagayama

    Kento NagayamaMasaki Kamihashi

  • Hirotaro Honda

    Hirotaro HondaOhki

  • Kazuya Takahashi

    Kazuya Takahashi

  • Gō Ibuki

    Gō Ibuki

  • Takuma Otoo

    Takuma Otoo

  • Kenji Nagae

  • Wataru Shihôdô

    Wataru Shihôdô

  • Kazuyoshi Ozawa

    Kazuyoshi Ozawa

  • Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

    Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

  • Yasukaze Motomiya

    Yasukaze Motomiya

  • Miho Ninagawa

    Miho Ninagawa

  • Tarō Suwa

    Tarō SuwaTaxi Driver

Director
Takashi Miike
Writer
Kazuhiro Kiuchi and Tamio Hayashi
Music
Koji Endo
Cinematography
Nobuyasu Kita