I Want to Be a Shellfish (1959)
私は貝になりたい
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.
- Date of release
- 1959-04-12
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Director
- Shinobu Hashimoto
Casting
- Frankie Sakai — Tomimatsu Shimizu
- Michiyo Aratama — Fusae Shimizu
- Kumi Mizuno — Toshiko
- Daisuke Katō — Takeuchi
- Susumu Fujita — General Yano
- Chishū Ryū — Komiya
- Tadao Nakamaru — Saburô Ônishi
- Kōji Nanbara
- Takeo Oikawa
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Yoshio Inaba
- Asao Koike
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