TMDb
8.3
I Want to Be a Shellfish
22 Sep 2008
2 hr 19 mins
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...
Toyomatsu Shimizu
Fusae Shimizu
Toshiko
Nemoto
Shokichi Sakai
Kenichi
Takeuchi
Captain Hidaka
Major Adachi
Sergeant Kimura
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