Shell and Joint
2019 · 154 min
Drama
★ 5.3Nitobe 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.
Crew
- Director Isamu Hirabayashi
- Screenplay Isamu Hirabayashi
- Director of Photography Isamu Hirabayashi
Cast
Crew
- Director — Isamu Hirabayashi
- Screenplay — Isamu Hirabayashi
- Director of Photography — Isamu Hirabayashi
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warming up the wall…
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