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Shield of Straw
Genres
ThrillerCrime
Overview
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$17876628
Runtime
125 min
Release Date
2013-04-25
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Vote Count
115
Vote Average
6.387
Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.
Nanako Matsushima
Atsuko Shiraiwa
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Kunihide Kiyomaru
Takao Osawa
Kazuki Mekari
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Ninagawa
Masatô Ibu
Kenji Sekiya
Goro Kishitani
Takeshi Okumura
Kento Nagayama
Masaki Kamihashi
Hirotaro Honda
Ohki
Kazuya Takahashi
Gō Ibuki
Takuma Otoo
Kenji Nagae
Wataru Shihôdô
Kazuyoshi Ozawa
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
Yasukaze Motomiya
Miho Ninagawa
Tarō Suwa
Taxi Driver
Daikichi Sugawara
Masahiko Sakata
Masahiro Sudo
Ichiro Hashimoto
Masato Yoshizawa
Satoshi Niizuma
Yuto Nakano
Takashi Nishina
Satoshi Shudai
Kimiko Yo
Takahiro Kuroishi
Issei Okihara
Shirô Namiki
Masahiro Noguchi
Katsuya
Tsunehisa Fujii
Daisuke Sugaya
Taichi Masu
Kazuhiko Fujii
Hitomi Ichinose
Futaba Tadokoro
Yuki Amano
Kenji Kawahara
Tomohide Takahara
Masashi Kano
Tatsushi Kasahara
Masayashi Kobashi
Takashi Akitane
Mone Sawada
Kumiko Mori
Takahiro Nihei
Kazuhiro Kojima
Ryo Mitsuhori
Seiya Yoshino
Takaya Miyadera
Takaya Miyadera
Ken Nehashi
Kosuke Watanabe
Tadashi Mihashi
Tetsuya Murakawa
Ju Takasuga
Noriaki Iida
Nobuaki Horio
Atsushi Nehara
Koji Miyamoto
Kazuhiko Okada
Hitoshi Yamamoto
Kenji Nakane
Mirai Tominaga
Isao Matsuura
Hironobu Katayama
Tatsuji Yano
Masato Honda
Satoo Asai
Aoi Toda
Yasunori Takahara
Kisaku Yanagawa
Ryo Yamakawa
Haruo Ogasawara
Haruko Tomoda
Akiko Ito
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