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I Want to Be a Shellfish

8.3 average rating
8.3
Japanese / 139 MIN. / 2008

The Genres

The Synopsis

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...

The Cast

Masahiro NakaiYukie NakamaYuki ShibamotoMasahiko NishimuraMagiTsubasa KatôTetsuya TakedaAinosuke KataokaTatsuo NadakaIsao TakenoNaomasa MusakaYoshiyoshi ArakawaPinko IzumiMasatô IbuTakaya KamikawaMitsuru Hirata

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