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Released , 'Shell and Joint' stars Mariko Tsutsui, Keisuke Horibe, Aiko Sato, Hiromi Kitagawa The movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 34 min, and received a user score of 60 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 5 well-known users.
Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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." .
