I Want to Be a Shellfish
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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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Tatsuo Nadaka
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Naomasa Musaka
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Katsuo Fukuzawa Director · Shinobu Hashimoto Screenplay Tetsutarō Katō Author
First release September 22, 2008 · Produced in Japan · Production TBS
Production
TOHO
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TBS
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Japan
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Original title
私は貝になりたい
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · September 22, 2008
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No release date listed for United States.
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