2013
6.4 (114 votes)
2h 5m
Genres
Thriller
Crime
Production Companies
Nippon Television Network Corporation
OLM
Warner Bros. Japan
Kodansha
Yahoo! Japan
jeki
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company
Miyagi Television Broadcasting
Shizuoka Daiichi Television
Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company
Hiroshima Telecasting
OLM
Warner Bros. Japan
Kodansha
Yahoo! Japan
jeki
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company
Miyagi Television Broadcasting
Shizuoka Daiichi Television
Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company
Hiroshima Telecasting
Shield of Straw (藁の楯 わらのたて)
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.
Key Crew
Screenplay: Tamio Hayashi
Director: Takashi Miike
Director of Photography: Nobuyasu Kita
Producer: Misako Saka, Naoaki Kitajima, Shigeji Maeda
Top Cast
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
Videos
Shield of Straw (Wara no tate) teaser trailer - Takashi Miike-directed movie
