I Want to Be a Shellfish
movie
Released September 22, 2008
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...
Cast
Masahiro Nakai
as
Toyomatsu Shimizu
Yukie Nakama
as
Fusae Shimizu
Yuki Shibamoto
as
Toshiko
Masahiko Nishimura
as
Nemoto
Magi
as
Shokichi Sakai
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Tsubasa Katô
as
Kenichi
Tetsuya Takeda
as
Takeuchi
Ainosuke Kataoka
as
Captain Hidaka
Tatsuo Nadaka
as
Major Adachi
Isao Takeno
as
Sergeant Kimura
Naomasa Musaka
as
Private Tateishi
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
as
Private Takita
Crew
Shinobu Hashimoto
as
Writer
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Nobuhiro Azuma
as
Producer
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Katsuaki Setoguchi
as
Producer
Katsuo Fukuzawa
as
Director
Kazutoshi Sakurai
as
Theme Song Performance
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Hirohide Abe
as
Editor
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Tsuyoshi Shimizu
as
Production Design
Katsuro Onoue
as
Special Effects Supervisor
Joe Hisaishi
as
Original Music Composer
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Kazuko Kurosawa
as
Costume Design
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Kosuke Matsushima
as
Director of Photography
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Tetsutarō Katō
as
Novel