Shell and Joint (2019)
Overview
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.
Cast
Mariko Tsutsui
Yoko Sakamoto
Keisuke Horibe
Nitobe
Aiko Sato
Hiromi Kitagawa
Koharu Kusumi
Ayano Kudo
Naoto Nojima
Ken Ishigai
Karia Nomoto
Tomoki Kimura
Ruka Ishikawa
Junpei Hashino
Maki Nishiyama
Kaori Takeshita
Mizuho Misato
Kohei Mashiba
Cicadas Man
