Shield of Straw

2013 · directed by Takashi Miike

Rating

54/100

Hit

no

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.

Shield of Straw (2013), directed by Takashi Miike, rates 54/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Nanako Matsushima
• Tatsuya Fujiwara
• Takao Osawa
• Tsutomu Yamazaki
• Masatô Ibu
• Goro Kishitani
• Kento Nagayama
• Hirotaro Honda
• Kazuya Takahashi
• Gō Ibuki

Crew

• Nobuyasu Kita — Director of Photography
• Kenji Yamashita — Editor
• Koji Endo — Original Music Composer
• Tamio Hayashi — Screenplay

More from Takashi Miike

1. Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000) — 81/100 · hit
2. Fudoh: The New Generation (1996) — 81/100 · hit
3. 13 Assassins (2010) — 80/100 · hit
4. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011) — 74/100
5. Audition (2000) — 73/100
6. The Bird People in China (1998) — 73/100

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