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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Mariko TsutsuiYoko Sakamoto
Keisuke HoribeNitobe
Aiko SatoCast
Hiromi KitagawaCast
Koharu KusumiCast
Ayano KudoCast
Naoto NojimaKen Ishigai
Kohei MashibaCicadas Man
You HasegawaCast
Karia NomotoCast
Tomoki KimuraCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Isamu Hirabayashi
- Screenplay
- Isamu Hirabayashi
- Editor
- Isamu Hirabayashi
- Original Music Composer
- Takashi Watanabe
- Producer
- Madoka Katsumata
- Director of Photography
- Isamu Hirabayashi