Shield of Straw (Japanese: 藁の楯, Hepburn: Wara no Tate) is a 2013 Japanese spy thriller film directed by Takashi Miike. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival[2] and it was released on 26 April 2013.[3]
| Shield of Straw | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Takashi Miike |
| Written by | Tamio Hayashi |
| Based on | Wara no Tate by Kazuhiro Kiuchi |
| Produced by | Naoaki Kitajima Shigeji Maeda Misako Saka |
| Starring | Takao Osawa Nanako Matsushima Tatsuya Fujiwara Tsutomu Yamazaki |
| Cinematography | Nobuyasu Kita |
| Edited by | Kenji Yamashita |
| Music by | Kôji Endô |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures Japan |
Release date |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $8.8 million[1] |
Plot
editThis article needs an improved plot summary. (January 2018) |
Ninagawa was a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections. His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Three months after the murder of his granddaughter, Ninagawa places a whole page ad in the three major Japanese newspapers. The ad states that if Kiyomaru is killed, Ninagawa will offer ¥1,000,000,000 as a reward. Kunihide Kiyomaru turns himself in at the Fukuoka Prefectural Police station. Five detectives from the Security Police (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.
Cast
edit- Takao Osawa as Kazuki Mekari
- Nanako Matsushima as Atsuko Shiraiwa
- Tatsuya Fujiwara as Kunihide Kiyomaru
- Masatō Ibu as Kenji Sekiya
- Kento Nagayama as Masaki Kamihashi
- Hirotarō Honda as Oki
- Kimiko Yo as Chikako Yuri
- Tsutomu Yamazaki as Ninagawa
Production
editThe filming began on 19 August 2012,[4] and took place in Japan, primarily in Aichi and Mie Prefectures, and Taiwan.[5] After the Shinkansen denied filming onboard its rolling stock, the train scenes were shot at the Taiwan High Speed Rail in September that year, with the support of the Taipei Film Commission.[5]
Remake
editOn 24 October 2016, it was announced that EuropaCorp is planning an English-language remake to be penned by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt and produced by Depth of Field's Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano and Dan Balgoyen and All Nippon Entertainment Works's Sandy Climan and Annmarie Bailey, and Nippon Television's Naoaki Kitajima.[6][7][8]
References
edit- ^ "Wara no tate (Shield of Straw) Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "2013 Official Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Cannes Film Festival. 18 April 2013. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ Schilling, Mark (1 August 2012). "Japanese helmer Miike sets up 'Shield'". Variety. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ Grace, Kimberly (1 August 2012). "Miike Casts Jin's Osawa, Ring's Matsushima, Death Note's Fujiwara". Anime News Network. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ a b "Exclusive Interview with Cast Members of "Shield of Straw"". filmcommission.taipei. Taipei Film Commission. 14 November 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ N'Duka, Amanda (24 October 2016). "EuropaCorp Boards English-Language Remake of Japanese Thriller 'Shield of Straw'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ McNary, Dave (24 October 2016). "'Shield of Straw' Remake in the Works With Backing From Luc Besson, Weitz Brothers". Variety. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ McNary, Dave (25 August 2015). "'Shield of Straw' English-Language Remake in the Works With Chris Weitz". Variety. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
External links
edit- Official website (in Japanese)
- Shield of Straw at IMDb
