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SYNOPSIS
Nitobe and Sakamoto are friends from childhood 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. Nor do any of the lives out of it for that matter. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. With crustaceans as leitmotif, the themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’lives.
SYNOPSIS
Nitobe and Sakamoto are friends from childhood 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. Nor do any of the lives out of it for that matter. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. With crustaceans as leitmotif, the themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’lives.
Isamu Hirabayashi was born in 1972 in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture. He was born into a family of precious metal craftsmen of three generations as the second of three sons.
Isamu Hirabayashi was born in 1972 in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture. He was born into a family of precious metal craftsmen of three generations as the second of three sons.
Isamu Hirabayashi was born in 1972 in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture. He was born into a family of precious metal craftsmen of three generations as the second of three sons.
Isamu Hirabayashi was born in 1972 in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture. He was born into a family of precious metal craftsmen of three generations as the second of three sons.
Isamu Hirabayashi was born in 1972 in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture. He was born into a family of precious metal craftsmen of three generations as the second of three sons.
6 LEGS
2020 / 15 min
CAST
MEGUMI
Keisuke Horibe
Kousei Kimura
STAFF
Director : Isamu Hirabayashi
Producer :Madoka Katsumata
Cinematographer : Isamu Hirabayashi
Gaffer : Yasuhiro Nomura
Production Design : Katsuaki Goto
Hair & Make : Seiji Kamikawa
Costume : Koto Yoshida
Editor : Isamu Hirabayashi
Music : Takashi Watanabe
Sound Design : Keitaro Iijima
Recording : Yasuo Hijikata
Still Photographer : Kohide Nakashima
Location Coodinator : Kazunari Shimizu
Line Producer : Takashi Nakamura
Production Manager : Shiori Tsuruta
Production Manager : Toshiki Okura
Production Manager : Tomotaka Misawa
Production Company : DASH CO., LTD.
Film Festival
PÖFF Shorts (Estonia)
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (Japan)
Sapporo International Short Film Festival (Japan)
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