100 minutos
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. 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."
Frankie Sakai
Shimizu Toyomatsu
Mutsuko Sakura
Shimizu Fusae
Toshie Takada
Toshiko
Shin Saburi
Lieutenant-General Yano
Yoshio Ōmori
Staff Officer
Yasumi Hara
Kôji Nanbara
Koji Kiyomura
Kazuo Kumakura
Hōsei Komatsu
Taketoshi Naitō
Seijirô Onda
Shinjirō Asano
Junji Masuda
Takeshi Sakamoto
Hisao Toake
Goro Tarumi
Akitake Kôno
Akio Tanaka
George Furness
Asao Sano
Tetsuya Kaji
Jerry Itō
Junkichi Orimoto
Munemaru Kôda
Masao Tsuruta
