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Straw Shield

Shield of Straw
Shield of Straw poster.jpg
Directed by Takashi Miike
Produced by Naoaki Kitajima
Shigeji Maeda
Misako Saka
Written by Tamio Hayashi
Based on Wara no Tate
by Kazuhiro Kiuchi
Starring Takao Osawa
Nanako Matsushima
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Music by Kôji Endô
Cinematography Nobuyasu Kita
Edited by Kenji Yamashita
Production
company
NTV
OLM
Straw Shield Production Committee
Distributed by Warner Bros. (Japan)
Release date
  • 26 April 2013 (2013-04-26)
Running time
125 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Shield of Straw (Japanese: 藁の楯, Hepburn: Wara no Tate) is a 2013 Japanese spy thriller film directed by Takashi Miike. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and was scheduled for release in the spring of 2013.

Ninagawa was a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections. His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Three months after the murder of his granddaughter, Ninagawa places a whole page ad in the 3 big Japanese newspapers. The ad then states that if Kiyomaru was executed, Ninagawa will offer 1,000,000,000 as a reward. Kunihide Kiyomaru turns himself in at the Fukuoka Police Station. Five detectives from the security section (SP) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department travel to Fukuoka to escort Kunihide Kiyomaru back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The distance between Fukuoka and Tokyo is apprixmately 1,200 km.

On October 24, 2016, it was announced that Europacorp is planning an English-language remake to be penned by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt and produced by Depth of Field's Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano and Dan Balgoyen and All Nippon Entertainment Works's Sanford Climan and Annmarie Bailey, and Nippon Television's Naoaki Kitajima.


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