Shell and Joint

Overview

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

Mariko Tsutsui

Yoko Sakamoto

Keisuke Horibe

Nitobe

Aiko Sato

Hiromi Kitagawa

Koharu Kusumi

Ayano Kudo

N/A

Kanako Higashi

Sakura Sakurada

Naoto Nojima

Ken Ishigai

Kohei Mashiba

Cicadas Man

You Hasegawa

Karia Nomoto

Tomoki Kimura