I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)

ALL 09/22/2008 (ja) War, Drama 139 Min
  • Release
    09/22/2008
  • Production
    TOHO, TBS
  • Rotten tomato
    83%
  • Original title
    私は貝になりたい
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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...

  1. Katsuo Fukuzawa

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Hirohide Abe

    Editor



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  1. Masahiro Nakai

    Toyomatsu Shimizu

  2. Yukie Nakama

    Fusae Shimizu

  3. Yuki Shibamoto

    Toshiko

  4. Masahiko Nishimura

    Nemoto

  5. Magi

    Shokichi Sakai

  6. Tsubasa Katô

    Kenichi

  7. Tetsuya Takeda

    Takeuchi

  8. Ainosuke Kataoka

    Captain Hidaka

  9. Tatsuo Nadaka

    Major Adachi

  10. Isao Takeno

    Sergeant Kimura

  11. Naomasa Musaka

    Private Tateishi

  12. Yoshiyoshi Arakawa

    Private Takita

  13. Pinko Izumi

    Toshio's mother

  14. Masatô Ibu

    Commander Onoe

  15. Takaya Kamikawa

  16. Mitsuru Hirata

    Miyake

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 16 , Crews : 12

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I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008) 139 Min

ALL 09/22/2008 (ja)
War, Drama
  • Release 09/22/2008
  • Production
    TOHO, TBS
  • Original title 私は貝になりたい
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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...

  1. Katsuo Fukuzawa

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Hirohide Abe

    Editor

  4. Nobuhiro Azuma, Katsuaki Setoguchi

    Producer