Movielogr
Shell and Joint (2019)
Directed by Isamu Hirabayashi
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.
Length 154 minutes
Actors
Mariko Tsutsui | Keisuke Horibe | Aiko Sato | Hiromi Kitagawa | Atsuko Sudo | Koharu Kusumi | Kanako Higashi | Tatsuya Gasyuin | Takuya Fujisaki | Ayano Kudo | Naoto Nojima | Karia Nomoto | Tomoki Kimura | Supika Yufune | Ruka Ishikawa | Junpei Hashino | Maki Nishiyama | Kaori Takeshita | Mizuho Misato | Kohei Mashiba | Hiroyuki Toritani | Mitsue Banzai