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I Want to Be a Shellfish

I Want to Be a Shellfish

8.3/ 10

TMDB Rating

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2008

Release Year

139 min

Runtime

TV Movie
War
Drama

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

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

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