Shell and Joint

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Mariko Tsutsui

Yoko Sakamoto

Age : 61 | Popularity : 7%

Keisuke Horibe

Nitobe

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Aiko Sato

Age : N/A | Popularity : 10%

Hiromi Kitagawa

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Atsuko Sudo

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Koharu Kusumi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Kanako Higashi

Sakura Sakurada

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Tatsuya Gasyuin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Isamu Hirabayashi
Directing	Director	Isamu Hirabayashi
Camera	Director of Photography	Isamu Hirabayashi
Editing	Editor	Isamu Hirabayashi
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Sayaka Takahashi
Sound	Original Music Composer	Takashi Watanabe
	Sound Designer	Keitaro Iijima
Art	Art Direction	Kenji Murakami
Production	Producer	Madoka Katsumata
Department	Role	Name

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