Shield of Straw

Apr 25, 2013

2h 5m

★ 6.4

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.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

Nippon Television Network Corporation

OLM

Warner Bros. Japan

Kodansha

Yahoo! Japan

jeki

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company

Miyagi Television Broadcasting

Shizuoka Daiichi Television

Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company

Hiroshima Telecasting

Shield of Straw Trailers

Cast

Atsuko Shiraiwa

Nanako Matsushima

Kunihide Kiyomaru

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Kazuki Mekari

Takao Osawa

Ninagawa

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Kenji Sekiya

Masatô Ibu

Takeshi Okumura

Goro Kishitani

Masaki Kamihashi

Kento Nagayama

Ohki

Hirotaro Honda

Kazuya Takahashi

Gō Ibuki

Takuma Otoo

Kenji Nagae

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