http://asianwiki.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Shield_of_Straw Shield of Straw - Revision history 2026-07-19T14:58:37Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.21.1 http://asianwiki.com/index.php?title=Shield_of_Straw&diff=1058858&oldid=prev RamenLover at 07:48, 21 May 2019 2019-05-21T07:48:47Z <p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{DramaBanner}}{{ImagePortrait|File:Straw Shield-p3.jpg}}<br /> <br /> ==User Rating==<br /> {{#w4grb_rate:}}<br /> <br /> ==Profile==<br /> * '''Movie:''' Shield of Straw (English title) <br /> * '''Romaji:''' Wara no Tate<br /> * '''Japanese:''' 藁の楯 <br /> * '''Director:''' [[Takashi Miike]]<br /> * '''Writer:''' [[Kazuhiro Kiuchi]] (novel), [[Tamio Hayashi]]<br /> * '''Producer:''' Naoaki Kitajima, Shigeji Maeda<br /> * '''Cinematographer:''' Nobuyasu Kita <br /> * '''Release Date:''' April 26, 2013 <br /> * '''Runtime:''' 125 min.<br /> * '''Genre:''' [[:Category:Action films|Action]] / [[:Category:Suspense films|Suspense]]<br /> * '''Distributor:''' [[Warner Bros. Japan]] <br /> * '''Language:''' Japanese<br /> * '''Country:''' Japan<br /> <br /> ==Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©==<br /> Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru ([[Tatsuya Fujiwara]]). 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.<br /> <br /> Three months after the murder of his granddaughter, Ninagawa places a whole page ad in the 3 big Japanese newspapers. The ad states &quot;Please kill this man Kunihide Kiyomaru and I will pay you 1,000,000,000  yen as a reward.&quot; Meanwhile, Kunihide Kiyomaru sees the ad and begins to fear for his life. Kunihide Kiyomaru then 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. During their fateful trip, a significant portion of the Japanese population plot to kill Kunihide Kiyomaru. <br /> Many of those people, actually pursue Kunihide Kiyomaru while he goes back to Tokyo to get the 1 billion yen reward. The lonely fight of the five detectives to protect this man begins ...<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> # Based on novel &quot;Wara no Tate&quot; by [[Kazuhiro Kiuchi]] (published October, 2004 by Kodansha Ltd.).<br /> # Filming begins August 19, 2012 and finishes early October, 2012.<br /> <br /> ==Cast==<br /> {{CastPictures9<br /> |1picture=File:Straw Shield-Takao Osawa.jpg<br /> |1name=Takao Osawa<br /> |1charactername=Kazuki Mekari<br /> |2picture=File:Straw Shield-Nanako Matsushima.jpg<br /> |2name=Nanako Matsushima<br /> |2charactername=Atsuko Shiraiwa<br /> |3picture=File:Straw Shield-Tatsuya Fujiwara.jpg<br /> |3name=Tatsuya Fujiwara<br /> |3charactername=Kunihide Kiyomaru<br /> |4picture=File:Straw Shield-Tsutomu Yamazaki.jpg<br /> |4name=Tsutomu Yamazaki<br /> |4charactername=Takaoki Ninagawa<br /> |5picture=File:Straw Shield-Goro Kishitani.jpg<br /> |5name=Goro Kishitani<br /> |5charactername=Takeshi Okumura<br /> |6picture=File:Straw Shield-Masato Ibu.jpg<br /> |6name=Masato Ibu<br /> |6charactername=Kenji Sekiya<br /> |7picture=File:Straw Shield-Kento Nagayama.jpg<br /> |7name=Kento Nagayama<br /> |7charactername=Masataka Kanbashi<br /> |8picture=File:Straw Shield-Kimiko Yo.jpg<br /> |8name=Kimiko Yo<br /> |8charactername=Chikako Yuri<br /> |9picture=File:Straw Shield-Hirotaro Honda.jpg<br /> |9name=Hirotaro Honda<br /> |9charactername=Section Chief Ooki<br /> }}<br /> '''Additional Cast Members:'''<br /> * [[Hirotaro Honda]]<br /> * [[Kazuya Takahashi]]<br /> * [[Takuma Otoo]]<br /> * [[Kazuyoshi Ozawa]]<br /> * [[Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi]]<br /> * [[Yasukaze Motomiya]]<br /> * [[Miho Ninagawa]]<br /> * [[Taro Suwa]]<br /> * [[Daikichi Sugawara]]<br /> * [[Ichiro Hashimoto]]<br /> * [[Takashi Nishina]]<br /> * [[Satoshi Judai]]<br /> * [[Shiro Namiki]]<br /> * [[Katsuya]]<br /> * [[Mikiya]]<br /> * [[Wataru Shihodo]]<br /> * [[Takahiro Kuroishi]]<br /> * [[Kenji Kawahara]]<br /> * [[Yuto Nakano]]<br /> * [[Masahiko Sakata (1956)|Masahiko Sakata]]<br /> <br /> ==Trailers==<br /> {{AsianWikiPlayer2|url=2012E/Straw_Shield.xml}}<br /> <br /> ==Image Gallery==<br /> {{AsianWikiImageGallery<br /> |1=Straw Shield-0001.jpg<br /> |2=Straw Shield-0002.jpg<br /> |3=Shield of Straw-0003.jpg<br /> |4=Shield of Straw-0004.jpg<br /> |5=Shield of Straw-0005.jpg<br /> |6=Shield of Straw-0006.jpg<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Film Festivals==<br /> * [[2013 (66th) Cannes Film Festival]] - May 15-26, 2013 - Competition <br /> * [[2013 (17th) Fantasia Film Festival]] - July 18-August 7, 2013 *North American Premiere<br /> * [[2013 (13th) New Horizons International Film Festival]] - July 18-28, 2013 - Panorama<br /> * [[2013 (46th) Sitges Film Festival]] - October 11-20, 2013 - Focus Àsia<br /> <br /> ==Comments==<br /> &lt;wp:comments&gt;<br /> wp_post_title=Shield of Straw<br /> wp_url=http://asianwiki.com/commentsdirectory/<br /> &lt;/wp:comments&gt;<br /> <br /> {{UpdateBox}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Japanese films]]<br /> [[Category:2013 Japanese films]]<br /> [[Category:films]]<br /> [[Category:2013 films]]<br /> [[Category:Action films]]<br /> [[Category:J Action films]]<br /> [[Category:Suspense films]]<br /> [[Category:J Suspense films]]<br /> [[Category:Warner Bros. 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