I Want to Be a Shellfish

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  • Movie: I Want to Be a Shellfish
  • Romaji: Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai
  • Japanese: 私は貝になりたい
  • Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa
  • Producer: Katsuaki Setoguchi
  • Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto, Tetsutaro Kato
  • Cinematographer: Asakazu Nakai
  • Released: November 22, 2008
  • Runtime: 139 min.
  • Studio: Toho, TBS
  • Movie Studio: Toho
  • Language: Japanese
  • Country: Japan

Plot

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...

Notes

  1. Based on the novel (published in 1959) by Tetsutaro Kato, a soldier convicted of war crimes and receiving the death penalty.
  2. Other titles based on the same story:
    1. I Want to Be a Shellfish (1959)
    2. Shinjitsu no Shuki BC-kyu Senpan Kato Tetsutaro: Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai (NTV / 2007)
    3. I Want to Be a Shellfish | Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai (2008)

Cast

Shellfish-Masahiro Nakai.jpg Shellfish-Yukie Nakama.jpg Shellfish-Tsubasa Kato.jpg Shellfish-Yuki Shibamoto.jpg Shellfish-Masahiko Nishimura.jpg Shellfish-Mitsuru Hirata.jpg
Masahiro Nakai Yukie Nakama Tsubasa Kato Yuki Shibamoto Masahiko Nishimura Mitsuru Hirata
Toyomatsu Shimizu Fusae Shimizu Kenichi Toshiko Nemoto Miyake
Shellfish-Magy.jpg Shellfish-Tetsuya Takeda.jpg Shellfish-Masato Ibu.jpg Shellfish-Ainosuke Kataoka.jpg Shellfish-Tatsuo Nadaka.jpg Shellfish-Isao Takeno.jpg
Magii Tetsuya Takeda Masato Ibu Ainosuke Kataoka Tatsuo Nadaka Isao Takeno
Masakichi Saka Takeuchi Onoe Hidaka Odachi Kimura
Shellfish-Naomasa Musaka.jpg Shellfish-YosiYosi Arakawa.jpg Shellfish-Pinko Izumi.jpg Shellfish-Zen Kajiwara.jpg Shellfish-Tsurube Shofukutei.jpg Shellfish-Takaya Kamikawa.jpg
Naomasa Musaka YosiYosi Arakawa Pinko Izumi Zen Kajiwara Tsurube Shofukutei Takaya Kamikawa
Tateishi Takita Toshio's mother Toshio Orita Takuji Nishizawa Komiya

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