Shell and Joint

Overview

Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.

Directed by Isamu Hirabayashi

Top cast

Mariko Tsutsui

Yoko Sakamoto

Keisuke Horibe

Nitobe

Aiko Sato

Hiromi Kitagawa

Koharu Kusumi

Ayano Kudo

K

Kanako Higashi

Sakura Sakurada

Naoto Nojima

Ken Ishigai

Kohei Mashiba

Cicadas Man

You Hasegawa

Karia Nomoto

Tomoki Kimura

Spica Yufune

Ruka Ishikawa

Junpei Hashino

Maki Nishiyama

Kaori Takeshita

Mizuho Misato

Hiroyuki Toritani

Mitsue Banzai

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