I Want to Be a Shellfish

I Want to Be a Shellfish was released on April 12, 1959.

I Want to Be a Shellfish was directed by Shinobu Hashimoto.

I Want to Be a Shellfish has a runtime of 1h 53m.

I Want to Be a Shellfish was produced by Reiji Miwa, Sanezumi Fujimoto.

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."

The key characters in I Want to Be a Shellfish are Tomimatsu Shimizu (Frankie Sakai), Fusae Shimizu (Michiyo Aratama), Toshiko (Kumi Mizuno).

I Want to Be a Shellfish is a Drama, War film.

I Want to Be a Shellfish has an audience rating of 7.4 out of 10.