I Want to Be a Shellfish
私は貝になりたい
Release: 2008-09-22
·Runtime: 139m
·★ 8.3
TV Movie
War
Drama
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...
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
TOHO
TBS
Cast
Masahiro Nakai
as Toyomatsu Shimizu
Yukie Nakama
as Fusae Shimizu
Yuki Shibamoto
as Toshiko
Masahiko Nishimura
as Nemoto
Magi
as Shokichi Sakai
Tetsuya Takeda
as Takeuchi
Ainosuke Kataoka
as Captain Hidaka
Tatsuo Nadaka
as Major Adachi
Isao Takeno
as Sergeant Kimura
Naomasa Musaka
as Private Tateishi
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
as Private Takita
Pinko Izumi
as Toshio's mother
Masatô Ibu
as Commander Onoe
Takaya Kamikawa
Mitsuru Hirata
as Miyake
