Shell and Joint (2019)
2h 34m
Running Time
April 22, 2019Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Mariko Tsutsui
Yoko
Keisuke Horibe
Nitobe
Kaori Takeshita
Jinko Tamamaru
Kanako Higashi
Actress
Isamu Hirabayashi
Director
Ruka Ishikawa
Actress
Hiromi Kitagawa
Actress
Ayano Kudo
Actress
Koharu Kusumi
Actress
Koharu Kusumi
Actress
Naoto Nojima
Ken Ishigai
Kohei Mashiba
Cicadas Man
Sayaka Takahashi
Costume Design
Takashi Watanabe
Original Music Composer
Kenji Murakami
Art Direction
Keitaro Iijima
Sound Designer
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Wiki.
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.
The film was screened at the 41st Moscow International Film Festival in April 2019. It had its North American premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in January 2020.