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I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)
Directed by Katsuo Fukuzawa
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…
Length 139 minutes
Actors
Masahiro Nakai | Yukie Nakama | Yuki Shibamoto | Masahiko Nishimura | Magi | Tsubasa Katô | Tetsuya Takeda | Ainosuke Kataoka | Tatsuo Nadaka | Isao Takeno | Naomasa Musaka | YosiYosi Arakawa | Pinko Izumi | Masatō Ibu | Takaya Kamikawa | Mitsuru Hirata