Shell and Joint 2019
6/10 by 5 users
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.
- Released: 2019-04-22
- Runtime: 154 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Mariko Tsutsui, Keisuke Horibe, Aiko Sato, Hiromi Kitagawa, Atsuko Sudo
- Director: Isamu Hirabayashi, Isamu Hirabayashi, Madoka Katsumata, Isamu Hirabayashi, Isamu Hirabayashi
