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I Want to Be a Shellfish

I Want to Be a Shellfish1959

★10.0113 min

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.

Director

Shinobu Hashimoto

Writer

Shinobu Hashimoto

Score

Stars

Frankie Sakai Michiyo Aratama Kumi Mizuno

Cast24

Frankie Sakai
as Tomimatsu Shimizu
Michiyo Aratama
as Fusae Shimizu
Kumi Mizuno
as Toshiko
Daisuke Katō
as Takeuchi
Susumu Fujita
as General Yano
Chishū Ryū
as Komiya
Tadao Nakamaru
as Saburô Ônishi
Kōji Nanbara
T
Takeo Oikawa
Kamatari Fujiwara
Yoshio Inaba
Asao Koike
Akihiko Hirata
Yū Fujiki
Ichirō Shimizu
Masao Oda
Jun Tatara
K
Kyoro Sakurai
Kazuo Katō
K
Kamayuki Tsubono
Keiji Sakakida
Ikio Sawamura
Sachio Sakai
G
George Furness

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