| Director | Takashi Miike |
|---|---|
| Producer | Naoaki Kitajima Shigeji Maeda Misako Saka |
| Writer | Tamio Hayashi |
| Starring | Takao Osawa Nanako Matsushima Tatsuya Fujiwara Tsutomu Yamazaki |
| Music | Kôji Endô |
| Cinematography | Nobuyasu Kita |
| Editing | Kenji Yamashita |
| Studio | NTV OLM Warner Bros. Pictures Japan Kōdansha Yahoo! Japan East Japan Marketing & Communications Inc. YTV STB MMT SDT CTV HTV FBS |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures Japan |
| Released | 26 April 2013 (Japan) |
| Runtime | 125 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Gross | $8.8 million[1] |
Shield of Straw (藁の楯, 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]
Synopsis
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
- 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
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
- ^ "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 2016-04-25 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ Schilling, Mark (2012-08-01). "Japanese helmer Miike sets up 'Shield'". Variety. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
- ^ Grace, Kimberly (2012-08-01). "Miike Casts Jin's Osawa, Ring's Matsushima, Death Note's Fujiwara". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
- ^ "Exclusive Interview with Cast Members of "Shield of Straw"". filmcommission.taipei. Taipei Film Commission. 2013-11-14. Archived from the original on 8 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
- ^ 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 (2015-08-25). "'Shield of Straw' English-Language Remake in the Works With Chris Weitz". Variety. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Shield of Straw at IMDb