Shell and Joint

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.

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Release date

22 Apr 2019

Runtime

2 h 34 min

• TMDB 5.3

Genres

• Drama

Director

Isamu Hirabayashi

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Countries

• JP

Cast

Mariko Tsutsuias Yoko SakamotoKeisuke Horibeas NitobeAiko SatoHiromi KitagawaKoharu KusumiAyano KudoKHKanako Higashias Sakura SakuradaNaoto Nojimaas Ken IshigaiKohei Mashibaas Cicadas ManYou Hasegawa

Writers

Isamu Hirabayashi

Composer

Takashi Watanabe

Cinematography

Isamu Hirabayashi

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