Basic Info
Release: April 22, 2019
Runtime: 154 min
Rating: ⭐ 5.3/10 (6 votes)
Status: Released
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Shell and Joint
2019
154 min
⭐ 5.3/10
6 votes
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.
Genres
Drama
Production Countries
- Japan
Spoken Languages
- Finnish fi
- Japanese ja
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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
Crew
Isamu Hirabayashi
Director
Isamu Hirabayashi
Screenplay
Madoka Katsumata
Producer
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