Shell and Joint
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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 charactersβ lives.
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Mariko Tsutsui
Yoko Sakamoto
Keisuke Horibe
Nitobe
Aiko Sato
Cast member
Hiromi Kitagawa
Cast member
Koharu Kusumi
Cast member
Ayano Kudo
Cast member
Kanako Higashi
Sakura Sakurada
Naoto Nojima
Ken Ishigai
Kohei Mashiba
Cicadas Man
You Hasegawa
Cast member
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