Shell and Joint

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Shell and Joint (2019)

Directed by Isamu Hirabayashi

Drama · 2h 34m

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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Cast

Mariko Tsutsui Yoko Sakamoto Keisuke Horibe Nitobe Aiko Sato Hiromi Kitagawa Koharu Kusumi Ayano Kudo
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Kanako Higashi Sakura Sakurada Naoto Nojima Ken Ishigai Kohei Mashiba Cicadas Man You Hasegawa Karia Nomoto Tomoki Kimura

Crew

Director
Isamu Hirabayashi
Screenplay
Isamu Hirabayashi
Director of Photography
Isamu Hirabayashi
Original Music Composer
Takashi Watanabe
Editor
Isamu Hirabayashi
Producer
Madoka Katsumata

Details

Release date
2019-04-22
Runtime
2h 34m
Genres
Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Finnish, Japanese
Countries
Japan