Shell and Joint
Directed by Isamu HirabayashiApril 22, 2019 2h 34mDrama
5.85.3
Nitobe and Sakamoto are friends from childhood 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. Nor do any of the lives out of it for that matter. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. With crustaceans as leitmotif, the themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters'lives.
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Shell and Joint was released on April 22, 2019.
Shell and Joint was directed by Isamu Hirabayashi.
Shell and Joint has a runtime of 2h 34m.
Shell and Joint was produced by Madoka Katsumata.
Nitobe and Sakamoto are friends from childhood 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. Nor do any of the lives out of it for that matter. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. With crustaceans as leitmotif, the themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters'lives.
The key characters in Shell and Joint are Yoko Sakamoto (Mariko Tsutsui), Nitobe (Keisuke Horibe), Aiko Sato.
Shell and Joint is a Drama film.
Shell and Joint has an audience rating of 5.8 out of 10.