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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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