About
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.
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Original Language
Japanese
Cast
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Mariko Tsutsui
Yoko Sakamoto
K
Keisuke Horibe
Nitobe
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Aiko Sato
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Hiromi Kitagawa
K
Koharu Kusumi
A
Ayano Kudo
K
Kanako Higashi
Sakura Sakurada
N
Naoto Nojima
Ken Ishigai
K
Kohei Mashiba
Cicadas Man
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You Hasegawa
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Karia Nomoto
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Tomoki Kimura
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Spica Yufune
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Ruka Ishikawa
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Junpei Hashino
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Maki Nishiyama
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Kaori Takeshita
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Mizuho Misato
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Hiroyuki Toritani
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Mitsue Banzai
