I Want to Be a Shellfish
20081944, 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...
Acted in
Masahiro Nakai
as Toyomatsu Shimizu
Yukie Nakama
as Fusae Shimizu
Yuki Shibamoto
as Toshiko
Masahiko Nishimura
as Nemoto
Magi
as Shokichi Sakai
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
Pinko Izumi
as Toshio's mother
Masatô Ibu
as Commander Onoe
Takaya Kamikawa
Mitsuru Hirata
as Miyake