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 characters’ lives.

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Cast

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Mariko Tsutsui actor

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Keisuke Horibe actor

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Aiko Satō actor

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Hiromi Kitagawa actor

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Atsuko Sudo actor

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Koharu Kusumi actor

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Kanako Higashi actor

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Tatsuya Gasyuin actor

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Takuya Fujisaki actor Ayano Kudo actor

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Naoto Nojima actor

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Karia Nomoto actor

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Tomoki Kimura actor

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Spica Yufune actor Ruka Ishikawa actor

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Junpei Hashino actor Maki Nishiyama actor

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Kaori Takeshita actor

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Mizuho Misato actor

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Kohei Mashiba actor