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