I Want to Be a Shellfish

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 22, 2008

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

TOHO,TBS

Cast

Ainosuke Kataoka,Magi,Isao Takeno,Yuki Shibamoto,Masatô Ibu,Tetsuya Takeda,Takaya Kamikawa,Masahiro Nakai,Tatsuo Nadaka,Masahiko Nishimuraand 6 more

Director

Katsuo Fukuzawa

Writer

Tetsutarō Katō,Shinobu Hashimoto

Producer

Yoshitaka Omori,Katsuaki Setoguchi,Kazuya Hamana,Nobuhiro Azuma

Cinematography

Kosuke Matsushima

Music

Joe Hisaishi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1038684