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I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)

I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)

Drama War TV Movie
Release Date: 2008, September 22
Directors: Katsuo Fukuzawa
Countries: Japan
Production: TOHO, TBS
Cast: Masahiko Nishimura, Naomasa Musaka, Mitsuru Hirata, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Ainosuke Kataoka, Yukie Nakama, Masatô Ibu, Tetsuya Takeda, Magi, Tatsuo Nadaka, Isao Takeno, Yuki Shibamoto

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...

Keywords:

snow war crimes tokyo, japan shōwa era (1926-89)