Shell and Joint
Director: Isamu Hirabayashi
Cast: Aiko Sato, Atsuko Sudo, Hiromi Kitagawa, Kanako Higashi, Keisuke Horibe, Koharu Kusumi, Mariko Tsutsui, Tatsuya Gasyuin
Synopsis:
Cast: Aiko Sato, Atsuko Sudo, Hiromi Kitagawa, Kanako Higashi, Keisuke Horibe, Koharu Kusumi, Mariko Tsutsui, Tatsuya Gasyuin
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.
