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==User Rating==<br />
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* '''Movie:''' I Want to Be a Shellfish <br />
* '''Romaji:''' Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai<br />
* '''Japanese:''' 私は貝になりたい<br />
* '''Director:''' [[Katsuo Fukuzawa]]<br />
* '''Producer:''' Katsuaki Setoguchi<br />
* '''Writer:''' [[Shinobu Hashimoto]], [[Tetsutaro Kato]] <br />
* '''Cinematographer:''' Asakazu Nakai<br />
* '''Released:''' November 22, 2008<br />
* '''Runtime:''' 139 min.<br />
* '''Studio:''' [[Toho]], [[TBS]]<br />
* '''Movie Studio:''' [[Toho]]<br />
* '''Language:''' Japanese<br />
* '''Country:''' Japan<br />
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==Plot==<br />
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...<br />
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==Notes==<br />
# Based on novel (published in 1959) by Tetsutaro Kato, a soldier convicted of war crimes and receiving the death penalty.<br />
# Other titles based on the same story:<br />
## [[I Want to Be a Shellfish (1959-Japan)|I Want to Be a Shellfish]] (1959)<br />
## [[Shinjitsu no Shuki BC-kyu Senpan Kato Tetsutaro: Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai]] (NTV / 2007)<br />
## [[I Want to Be a Shellfish]] | Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai (2008)<br />
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==Cast==<br />
{{CastPictures18<br />
|1picture=File:Shellfish-Masahiro Nakai.jpg<br />
|1name=Masahiro Nakai<br />
|1charactername=Toyomatsu Shimizu<br />
|2picture=File:Shellfish-Yukie Nakama.jpg<br />
|2name=Yukie Nakama<br />
|2charactername=Fusae Shimizu<br />
|3picture=File:Shellfish-Tsubasa Kato.jpg<br />
|3name=Tsubasa Kato<br />
|3charactername=Kenichi<br />
|4picture=File:Shellfish-Yuki Shibamoto.jpg<br />
|4name=Yuki Shibamoto<br />
|4charactername=Toshiko<br />
|5picture=File:Shellfish-Masahiko Nishimura.jpg<br />
|5name=Masahiko Nishimura<br />
|5charactername=Nemoto<br />
|6picture=File:Shellfish-Mitsuru Hirata.jpg<br />
|6name=Mitsuru Hirata<br />
|6charactername=Miyake<br />
|7picture=File:Shellfish-Magy.jpg<br />
|7name=Magii<br />
|7charactername=Masakichi Saka<br />
|8picture=File:Shellfish-Tetsuya Takeda.jpg<br />
|8name=Tetsuya Takeda<br />
|8charactername=Takeuchi <br />
|9picture=File:Shellfish-Masato Ibu.jpg<br />
|9name=Masato Ibu<br />
|9charactername=Onoe<br />
|10picture=File:Shellfish-Ainosuke Kataoka.jpg<br />
|10name=Ainosuke Kataoka<br />
|10charactername=Hidaka<br />
|11picture=File:Shellfish-Tatsuo Nadaka.jpg<br />
|11name=Tatsuo Nadaka<br />
|11charactername=Odachi<br />
|12picture=File:Shellfish-Isao Takeno.jpg<br />
|12name=Isao Takeno<br />
|12charactername=Kimura<br />
|13picture=File:Shellfish-Naomasa Musaka.jpg<br />
|13name=Naomasa Musaka<br />
|13charactername=Tateishi<br />
|14picture=File:Shellfish-YosiYosi Arakawa.jpg<br />
|14name=YosiYosi Arakawa<br />
|14charactername=Takita<br />
|15picture=File:Shellfish-Pinko Izumi.jpg<br />
|15name=Pinko Izumi<br />
|15charactername=Toshio's mother<br />
|16picture=File:Shellfish-Zen Kajiwara.jpg<br />
|16name=Zen Kajiwara<br />
|16charactername=Toshio Orita<br />
|17picture=File:Shellfish-Tsurube Shofukutei.jpg<br />
|17name=Tsurube Shofukutei<br />
|17charactername=Takuji Nishizawa<br />
|18picture=File:Shellfish-Takaya Kamikawa.jpg<br />
|18name=Takaya Kamikawa<br />
|18charactername=Komiya<br />
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'''Additional Cast Members:'''<br />
* [[Koji Ishizaka]] - Yano<br />
* [[Ginnojo Yamazaki]] - Yamaguchi<br />
* [[Junkichi Orimoto]] - Matsuda<br />
* [[Tsuyoshi Kusanagi]] - Saburo Ohnishi<br />
* [[Kenichi Abe (1973)|Kenichi Abe]] - aide-de-camp<br />
* [[Akio Kaneda]] <br />
* [[Kazuyuki Asano]] <br />
* [[Zen Kajihara]]<br />
* [[Ryutaro Yamasaki]]<br />
* [[Junpei Morita]]<br />
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==Awards==<br />
* [[Nikkan Sports Film Awards|2008 (21st) Nikkan Sports Film Awards]] - December 2008<br />
** '''Best Actor''' ([[Masahiro Nakai]])<br />
** '''Fan Award Best Picture'''<br />
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==External Links==<br />
* [http://www.watashi-kai.jp/ Japanese Homepage]<br />
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