Shell and Joint (2019)
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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Writing:
Stars:
- Isamu Hirabayashi
Writing:
- Isamu Hirabayashi
Stars:
Release Date: 2019-04-22
6.0/10
6.0/10
- Country: JP
- Language: suomi | 日本語
- Runtime: 154
Ken Ishigai
Yoko Sakamoto
Nitobe
