I Want to Be a Shellfish
I Want to Be a Shellfish

I Want to Be a Shellfish

8.3

2 hr 19 min

2008-09-22

3

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...

TV Movie

War

Drama

Trailers

Characters

Masahiro Nakai

Masahiro Nakai

Toyomatsu Shimizu

Yukie Nakama

Yukie Nakama

Fusae Shimizu

Yuki Shibamoto

Yuki Shibamoto

Toshiko

Masahiko Nishimura

Masahiko Nishimura

Nemoto

Magi

Magi

Shokichi Sakai

Tsubasa Katô

Tsubasa Katô

Kenichi

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