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Shell and Joint
2 hours 34 minutes2019-04-22
6.0
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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.
Cast
![Mariko Tsutsui](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//1pHQEi0VkIXaua99UWFIqBnCE5T.jpg)
Mariko Tsutsui
Yoko Sakamoto
![Keisuke Horibe](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//hhAuwFb6AoAGsDufXljk6oZV6Hf.jpg)
Keisuke Horibe
Nitobe
![Aiko Sato](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//zNofTcn2k1BaItvOdoVjOYSaM4E.jpg)
Aiko Sato
![Hiromi Kitagawa](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//ruNL7jRPx8ntp2lZbpoRrR8X42M.jpg)
Hiromi Kitagawa
![Atsuko Sudo](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Atsuko Sudo
![Koharu Kusumi](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Koharu Kusumi
![Kanako Higashi](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kanako Higashi
Sakura Sakurada
![Tatsuya Gasyuin](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Tatsuya Gasyuin
![Takuya Fujisaki](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Takuya Fujisaki
![Ayano Kudo](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//anAsYfDvC7c3GDncQ4IHUMhsdp9.jpg)
Ayano Kudo
![Naoto Nojima](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//wrgus73v4zQFaohyLAbvV27Z8Gk.jpg)
Naoto Nojima
Ken Ishigai
![Karia Nomoto](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Karia Nomoto
![Tomoki Kimura](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//xbByRsTlLu2tDaRE4fFfvS1v0T7.jpg)
Tomoki Kimura
![Supika Yufune](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Supika Yufune
![Ruka Ishikawa](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//biElSyhhl3NfkxL24abT0qkGPla.jpg)
Ruka Ishikawa
![Junpei Hashino](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Junpei Hashino
![Maki Nishiyama](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//vJrqvzP4NldHdlT5pKfuR58v5T5.jpg)
Maki Nishiyama
![Kaori Takeshita](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//ch8dOau2uiP779Ia7ejai7NFUXS.jpg)
Kaori Takeshita
![Mizuho Misato](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//xKkKPLJPMG0PG1zAlijpkZdY6IC.jpg)
Mizuho Misato
![Kohei Mashiba](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kohei Mashiba
Cicadas Man
![Hiroyuki Toritani](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//rXCL3j2Vn8rs3iiCV5S9GqIbmMe.jpg)
Hiroyuki Toritani
![Mitsue Banzai](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//g84WWtfKkLucW2m4I73xtkpINpg.jpg)