10 Best Movies Like I Want to Be a Shellfish
If you loved I Want to Be a Shellfish, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Be a Shellfish for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Me...
The Scarlet and the Black
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Be a Shellfish for fans of TV Movie & War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Be a Shellfish for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate ...
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Be a Shellfish for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza....
Danny Boy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Be a Shellfish for fans of TV Movie & War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battle...
A Hen in the Wind
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Be a Shellfish for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to the doctor but has no means of paying, so she resorts to prostitution....