我想成为贝壳
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私は貝になりたい
/
想成为贝壳
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我想成為貝殼
director:
Katsuo Fukuzawa
playwright:
Shinobu Hashimoto
actor:
Masahiro Nakai
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Yukie Nakama
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Yuki Shibamoto
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Masahiko Nishimura
genre:
Drama
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War
region:
Japan
language:
Japanese
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English
length: 2h 19m
release date: 2008-11-22
IMDb: tt1038684
website:
www.watashi-kai.jp
私は貝になりたい
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...