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I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)

8.3 | Sep 22, 2008 (JP) | TV Movie, War, Drama | 02:19

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...

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Masahiro Nakai
Toyomatsu Shimizu
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Yukie Nakama
Fusae Shimizu
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Shokichi Sakai
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Tetsuya Takeda
Takeuchi
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Ainosuke Kataoka
Captain Hidaka
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Tatsuo Nadaka
Major Adachi
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Isao Takeno
Sergeant Kimura

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