I Want to Be a Shellfish

私は貝になりたい

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...

Director

福澤克雄

Music

久石譲

Novela

加藤哲太郎

Screenplay

橋本忍

Status

Released

Release date

22/09/2008

Original language

Japanese