Shield of Straw

Movie · Action · Adventure

One of the country's most powerful men, Ninagawa is a multi-billionaire who believes that his granddaughter was killed by Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Hungering for revenge, Ninagawa places an ad in all the major Japanese newspapers offering 1 billion to the person who kills Kiyomaru. Terrified, Kiyomaru quickly turns himself in to the Fukuoka Police. Now it's open season on him, with nothing but a handful of cops to protect him from the entire population on the 1,200 km journey between Fukuoka and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

2013 · 2h 4m
Director Takashi Miike

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Shield of Straw

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One of the country's most powerful men, Ninagawa is a multi-billionaire who believes that his granddaughter was killed by Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Hungering for revenge, Ninagawa places an ad in all the major Japanese newspapers offering 1 billion to the person who kills Kiyomaru. Terrified, Kiyomaru quickly turns himself in to the Fukuoka Police. Now it's open season on him, with nothing but a handful of cops to protect him from the entire population on the 1,200 km journey between Fukuoka and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

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Average 5.8
Reviews 11
Fresh 5
Rotten 6

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Studio
Nippon Television Network Corporation
Released
2013
Run Time
2 hr 4 min
Rated
R16 Graphic violence.
Region of Origin
Japan
© 2013 Kazuhiro Kiuchi/Kodansha/"Shield of Straw" Film Partners.

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Original Audio
Japanese, Japanese (Japan)