Shield of Straw (2013) [N/A]

Release Date:
April 25, 2013

Original Title:
藁の楯 わらのたて

Alternate Titles:
Straw Shield
Wara no tate

Genres:
Crime | Thriller

Production Companies:
Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company
Hiroshima Telecasting
Kodansha
Miyagi Television Broadcasting
Nippon Television Network Corporation
OLM
Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company
Shizuoka Daiichi Television
Warner Bros. Japan
Yahoo! Japan
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
jeki

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
CH: 16  DE: 16  JP: G  KR: 15 

Runtime: 125

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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Art Direction:
Yuji Hayashida

CGI Director:
Kaori Ohtagaki

Casting:
Masako Itô

Director:
Takashi Miike

Director of Photography:
Nobuyasu Kita

Editor:
Kenji Yamashita

Executive Producer:
Seiji Okuda
Hiroyoshi Koiwai
Tomoko Jo
William Ireton

Gaffer:
Yoshimi Watabe

Line Producer:
Tomoyuki Imai
Maya Yoshida
Shin'ya Zenda

Novel:
Kazuhiro Kiuchi

Original Music Composer:
Koji Endo

Producer:
Naoaki Kitajima
Shigeji Maeda
Misako Saka

Screenplay:
Tamio Hayashi

Sound Effects:
Kenji Shibasaki

Sound Recordist:
Jun Nakamura

Theme Song Performance:
Kyosuke Himuro

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