Shell and Joint

Name: Shell and Joint
Genre: Drama
Released: 2019-04-22
Duration: 154 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: 筒井真理子, 堀部圭亮, 佐藤藍子, 北川弘美, 久住小春

2019 2 h 34 min

Drama

53%

Audience score6 votes on TMDB

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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: 平林勇
Screenplay: 平林勇
Music: 渡邊崇
Status: Released
Release date: 22/04/2019
Original language: Japanese