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.
- Date of release
- 2019-04-22
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 2h 34m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Isamu Hirabayashi
Casting
- Mariko Tsutsui — Yoko Sakamoto
- Keisuke Horibe — Nitobe
- Aiko Sato
- Hiromi Kitagawa
- Koharu Kusumi
- Ayano Kudo
- Kanako Higashi — Sakura Sakurada
- Naoto Nojima — Ken Ishigai
- Kohei Mashiba — Cicadas Man
- You Hasegawa
- Karia Nomoto
- Tomoki Kimura
Interesting facts
Shell and Joint is a 2019 film directed by Isamu Hirabayashi and starring Mariko Tsutsui and Keisuke Horibe as co-workers in a Japanese capsule hotel.
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