Shield of Straw

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 and it was released on 26 April 2013. Plot 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