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I Want to Be a Shellfish
2008, Sep 22
2h 19m
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...
Directed by
Katsuo Fukuzawa
Masatô Ibu
Commander Onoe
Masahiko Nishimura
Nemoto
Yukie Nakama
Fusae Shimizu
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
Private Takita
Ainosuke Kataoka
Captain Hidaka
Tetsuya Takeda
Takeuchi
Mitsuru Hirata
Miyake
Takaya Kamikawa
Naomasa Musaka
Private Tateishi
Magi
Shokichi Sakai
Pinko Izumi
Toshio's mother
Yuki Shibamoto
Toshiko
Tatsuo Nadaka
Major Adachi
Masahiro Nakai
Toyomatsu Shimizu
Isao Takeno
Sergeant Kimura
Tsubasa Katô
Kenichi
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