I Want to Be a Shellfish

Sep 22, 2008

2h 19m

★ 8.3

Overview

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...

Genres

TV Movie

War

Drama

Production Companies

TOHO

TBS

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Cast

Toyomatsu Shimizu

Masahiro Nakai

Fusae Shimizu

Yukie Nakama

Toshiko

Yuki Shibamoto

Nemoto

Masahiko Nishimura

Shokichi Sakai

Magi

Kenichi

Tsubasa Katô

Takeuchi

Tetsuya Takeda

Captain Hidaka

Ainosuke Kataoka

Major Adachi

Tatsuo Nadaka

Sergeant Kimura

Isao Takeno

Private Tateishi

Naomasa Musaka

Private Takita

Yoshiyoshi Arakawa

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