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I Want to Be a Shellfish(2008)
Status: Released
Date: 2008-09-22
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3 Votes
Time: 2h 19m
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...
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: I Want to Be a Shellfish
Top 10 Billed Cast
中居正広
Toyomatsu Shimizu
仲間由紀恵
Fusae Shimizu
柴本幸
Toshiko
西村雅彥
Nemoto
マギー
Shokichi Sakai
武田鉄矢
Takeuchi
六代目 片岡愛之助
Captain Hidaka
名高達男
Major Adachi
武野功雄
Sergeant Kimura
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