I Want to Be a Shellfish

8.3
20082h 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...

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Masahiro Nakai

Toyomatsu Shimizu

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Yukie Nakama

Fusae Shimizu

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Magi

Shokichi Sakai

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Ainosuke Kataoka

Captain Hidaka

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Tatsuo Nadaka

Major Adachi

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Isao Takeno

Sergeant Kimura

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Naomasa Musaka

Private Tateishi

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Yoshiyoshi Arakawa

Private Takita

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Pinko Izumi

Toshio's mother

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Masatô Ibu

Commander Onoe

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