Tag: I Want to Be a Shellfish
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Joe Hisaishi’s Haunting Score for ‘I Want to Be a Shellfish’: A Masterwork of War’s Moral Complexity
Katsuo Fukuzawa’s 2008 film “I Want to Be a Shellfish” stands as a profound meditation on the injustices of war and the fragility of human morality. The narrative follows Toyomatsu Shimizu, an ordinary barber conscripted during the final year of World War II, whose life takes an irreversible turn when he is ordered to execute…
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