I Want to Be a Shellfish

I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)


  • Genre: War, Drama
  • Release Date: 2008-09-22
  • User Rating: 8.3/10 from 3 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 19min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: TOHO
  • Production Country: Japan
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Summary

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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Production Katsuaki Setoguchi Producer
Writing Shinobu Hashimoto Writer
Directing Katsuo Fukuzawa Director
Production Nobuhiro Azuma Producer
Writing Tetsutarō Katō Novel
Sound Joe Hisaishi Original Music Composer
Costume & Make-Up Kazuko Kurosawa Costume Design
Camera Kosuke Matsushima Director of Photography
Sound Mr.Children Theme Song Performance
Editing Hirohide Abe Editor
Art Takeshi Shimizu Production Design
Visual Effects Katsuro Onoue Special Effects Supervisor