I Want to Be a Shellfish
2008•2h 19m•8.3•Released
TV MovieWarDrama
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible...
Director
Katsuo Fukuzawa
Writer
Shinobu Hashimoto
Languages
Japanese
Studio
TOHO
Cast
Masahiro Nakai
Toyomatsu Shimizu
Yukie Nakama
Fusae Shimizu
Yuki Shibamoto
Toshiko
Masahiko Nishimura
Nemoto
Magi
Shokichi Sakai
Tsubasa Katô
Kenichi
Tetsuya Takeda
Takeuchi
Ainosuke Kataoka
Captain Hidaka
Tatsuo Nadaka
Major Adachi
Isao Takeno
Sergeant Kimura
Naomasa Musaka
Private Tateishi
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
Private Takita
Pinko Izumi
Toshio's mother
Masatô Ibu
Commander Onoe
Takaya Kamikawa
Production
Company
TOHO
Company
TBS
Producer
Nobuhiro Azuma
Producer
Katsuaki Setoguchi
Producer
Yoshitaka Omori
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