Shell and Joint (2019) — drama film. Directed by Isamu Hirabayashi. Starring Mariko Tsutsui, Keisuke Horibe, Aiko Sato, Hiromi Kitagawa.
Interactive Features for Shell and Joint
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Character Relationship Map
— Interactive D3-powered visualization of character connections, alliances, and conflicts. Explore how 5 characters interconnect through 0 relationship links.
Drama · 5.3/10 · 154 min · 2019
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.
