Film
Shell and Joint
2019 · 2h 34m · Drama
- IMDb
- 5.7
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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
Atsuko Sudo
Koharu Kusumi
Kanako Higashi
Sakura Sakurada
Tatsuya Gasyuin
Takuya Fujisaki
Ayano Kudo
Naoto Nojima
Ken Ishigai
Karia Nomoto
Tomoki Kimura
Spica Yufune
Ruka Ishikawa
Junpei Hashino
Crew
- Isamu HirabayashiScreenplay · Director · Editor · Director of Photography
- Madoka KatsumataProducer
- Takashi WatanabeOriginal Music Composer
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 22, 2019
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 2h 34m
- Genres
- Drama
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