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Shield of Straw(藁の楯 わらのたて)

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Japan · 2013
2h 5m
Director Takashi Miike
Starring Nanako Matsushima, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takao Osawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Genre Thriller, Crime

Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). 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.

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Time Out London by Dave Calhoun

[A] baggy revenge thriller consisting of short violent set pieces interspersed with far too many talky debates about the morality of protecting a killer.

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The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney

Sleek and engrossing, though awfully drawn out and short on psychological complexity, this is a straight-up police action thriller that adheres to a very familiar Hollywood template.

25

The Playlist by Kevin Jagernauth

A b-movie potboiler at best, and indebted to countless other and much better films, this tedious, dumb, so-bad-it's-almost-funny procedural is an overstuffed thriller that offers one single idea, and proceeds to beat it to death, without much of anything to say.

20

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It is put together with technical competence, but is entirely cliched and preposterous, and it implodes into its own fundamental narrative implausibility.

30

Variety by Peter Debruge

Even the hackiest of Hollywood writers would have known how to fix its considerable script problems.

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