Shell and Joint

The story

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.

Cast

M Mariko TsutsuiYoko Sakamoto K Keisuke HoribeNitobe A Aiko Sato H Hiromi Kitagawa K Koharu Kusumi A Ayano Kudo K Kanako HigashiSakura Sakurada N Naoto NojimaKen Ishigai K Kohei MashibaCicadas Man Y You Hasegawa K Karia Nomoto T Tomoki Kimura

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S Spica Yufune R Ruka Ishikawa J Junpei Hashino M Maki Nishiyama K Kaori Takeshita M Mizuho Misato H Hiroyuki Toritani M Mitsue Banzai A Atsuko Sudo T Tatsuya Gasyuin T Takuya Fujisaki