Shell and Joint

Shell and Joint (2019)

Drama

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.

Director: Isamu Hirabayashi
Writer: Isamu Hirabayashi

Casts

	Mariko Tsutsui as Yoko Sakamoto
	Keisuke Horibe as Nitobe
	Aiko Sato as
	Hiromi Kitagawa as
	Atsuko Sudo as
	Koharu Kusumi as
	Kanako Higashi as Sakura Sakurada
	Tatsuya Gasyuin as
	Takuya Fujisaki as
	Ayano Kudo as
	Naoto Nojima as Ken Ishigai
	Karia Nomoto as
	Tomoki Kimura as
	Supika Yufune as
	Ruka Ishikawa as
	Junpei Hashino as
	Maki Nishiyama as
	Kaori Takeshita as
	Mizuho Misato as
	Kohei Mashiba as Cicadas Man
	Hiroyuki Toritani as
	Mitsue Banzai as

Crew