I Want to Be a Shellfish

I Want to Be a Shellfish

Watashi wa kai ni naritai
🎞️ Movie 89 min JP
โ˜… 7.4 /10 1959

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu 'attemped to kill a US prisoner', which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: 'If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea.'

Cast

Furankī Sakai
Furankī Sakai
Tomimatsu Shimizu
Michiyo Aratama
Michiyo Aratama
Fusae Shimizu
Chishū Ryū
Chishū Ryū
Komiya
Susumu Fujita
Susumu Fujita
General Yano
Daisuke Katō
Daisuke Katō
Takeuchi
Kamatari Fujiwara
Kamatari Fujiwara
Lieutenant Adachi
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Shinji Nanbara
Lieutenant Ogami
Akihiko Hirata
Akihiko Hirata
Staff Officer
Jun Tatara
Jun Tatara
Nemoto
Kumi Mizuno
Kumi Mizuno
Toshiko
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Masaru Satō
Composer
Asakazu Nakai
Asakazu Nakai
Cinematographer