Shield of Straw
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTakashi Miike
Written byTamio Hayashi
Based onWara no Tate
by Kazuhiro Kiuchi
Produced byNaoaki Kitajima
Shigeji Maeda
Misako Saka
StarringTakao Osawa
Nanako Matsushima
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Tsutomu Yamazaki
CinematographyNobuyasu Kita
Edited byKenji Yamashita
Music byKôji Endô
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures Japan
Release date
  • 26 April 2013 (2013-04-26) (Japan)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$8.8 million[1]

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]

Plot

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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

Production

The 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

On 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

  1. ^ "Wara no tate (Shield of Straw) Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  2. ^ "2013 Official Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Cannes Film Festival. 18 April 2013. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  3. ^ Schilling, Mark (1 August 2012). "Japanese helmer Miike sets up 'Shield'". Variety. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  4. ^ Grace, Kimberly (1 August 2012). "Miike Casts Jin's Osawa, Ring's Matsushima, Death Note's Fujiwara". Anime News Network. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  5. ^ a b "Exclusive Interview with Cast Members of "Shield of Straw"". filmcommission.taipei. Taipei Film Commission. 14 November 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  6. ^ N'Duka, Amanda (24 October 2016). "EuropaCorp Boards English-Language Remake of Japanese Thriller 'Shield of Straw'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  7. ^ McNary, Dave (24 October 2016). "'Shield of Straw' Remake in the Works With Backing From Luc Besson, Weitz Brothers". Variety. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  8. ^ McNary, Dave (25 August 2015). "'Shield of Straw' English-Language Remake in the Works With Chris Weitz". Variety. Retrieved 28 January 2017.

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