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Director
  
Takashi Miike

Story by
  
Kazuhiro Kiuchi

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

6.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Thriller

Music director
  
Koji Endo

Country
  
Japan

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Release date
  
26 April 2013 (2013-04-26)

Based on
  
Wara no Tate  by Kazuhiro Kiuchi

Writer
  
Kazuhiro Kiuchi (based on the novel by), Tamio Hayashi (screenplay)

Cast
  
Nanako Matsushima
(Atsuko Shiraiwa),
Tatsuya Fujiwara
(Kunihide Kiyomaru),
Takao Osawa
(Kazuki Mekari),
Tsutomu Yamazaki
,
Masatō Ibu
,
Gorô Kishitani

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,
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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.

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Plot

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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.

Cast

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  • Takao Osawa - Kazuki Mekari
  • Nanako Matsushima - Atsuko Shiraiwa
  • Tatsuya Fujiwara - Kunihide Kiyomaru
  • Masatō Ibu - Kenji Sekiya
  • Kento Nagayama - Masaki Kamihashi
  • Kimiko Yo - Chikako Yuri
  • Tsutomu Yamazaki - Ninagawa
  • Remake

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    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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    References

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