
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.
Shell and Joint
April 22, 2019
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Cast (22)

Mariko Tsutsui
Yoko Sakamoto

Keisuke Horibe
Nitobe

Aiko Sato
N/A

Hiromi Kitagawa
N/A

Atsuko Sudo
N/A

Koharu Kusumi
N/A

Kanako Higashi
Sakura Sakurada

Tatsuya Gasyuin
N/A

Takuya Fujisaki
N/A

Ayano Kudo
N/A

Naoto Nojima
Ken Ishigai

Karia Nomoto
N/A

Tomoki Kimura
N/A

Supika Yufune
N/A

Ruka Ishikawa
N/A

Junpei Hashino
N/A

Maki Nishiyama
N/A

Kaori Takeshita
N/A

Mizuho Misato
N/A

Kohei Mashiba
Cicadas Man

Mitsue Banzai
N/A
Crew (9)
Directing

Isamu Hirabayashi
Director
Writing

Isamu Hirabayashi
Screenplay
Production

Madoka Katsumata
Producer
Sound

Keitaro Iijima
Sound Designer

Takashi Watanabe
Original Music Composer
Art

Kenji Murakami
Art Direction
Camera

Isamu Hirabayashi
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up

Sayaka Takahashi
Costume Design
Crew
No data availableEditing

Isamu Hirabayashi
Editor