Shell and Joint
2019, Japanese. Directed by Isamu Hirabayashi.
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.
- Runtime
- 2h 34m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 22 April 2019
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Isamu Hirabayashi
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Shell and Joint runs 154 minutes (2h 34m).
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Shell and Joint isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 22 April 2019. (Checked 1 November 2026.)
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Who directed Shell and Joint?
Shell and Joint (2019) was directed by Isamu Hirabayashi and stars Mariko Tsutsui, Keisuke Horibe, Aiko Sato.