Shell and Joint 5 years old

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.

Credits

Shell and Joint Cast

Name	Character
Mariko Tsutsui She was 56, now 61 years old
Keisuke Horibe He was 53, now 58 years old
Aiko Sato She was 35, now 40 years old

Shell and Joint Crew

Name	Department