Movie
Shield of Straw
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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Checked Sep 4, 2026
Shield of Straw was released April 25, 2013. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
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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Cast
Nanako MatsushimaAtsuko Shiraiwa
Tatsuya FujiwaraKunihide Kiyomaru
Takao OsawaKazuki Mekari
Tsutomu YamazakiNinagawa
Masatô IbuKenji Sekiya
Goro KishitaniTakeshi Okumura
Kento NagayamaMasaki Kamihashi
Hirotaro HondaOhkiCredits
- Directed by
- Takashi Miike
- Written by
- Tamio Hayashi, Kazuhiro Kiuchi
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Original title
- 藁の楯 わらのたて
- Box office
- $17.9M
Production
Nippon Television Network CorporationJapan
OLMJapan
Warner Bros. JapanJapan
KodanshaJapan
Yahoo! JapanJapan
jekiJapan