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.
A Story Constructed of 17 Pieces of Space and 1 maggot
2015 / 25 min
FILM FESTIVAL
25FPS (Croatia)
Award / Audience Award
Busan Asian Short Film Festival 2007 (Korea)
Image Forum Festival 2007 (Japan)
Toronto Japanese Short Film Festival (Canada)
Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada)
Colchester International Short Film Festival (UK)
Hawaii International Film Festival (USA)
Cork Film Festival (Ireland)
Clark Theater 2007 (Japan)
STAFF
Director : Director/Isamu Hirabayashi
Producer : Takao Odamiya
Cinematographer : Miki Ogawa
Gaffer : Yasuhiro Nomura
Production Designer : Noriko Kato
Editor : Mitsuhiro Horisaki
Sound Mixer : Takeshi Kino
Sound Effects : Naoki Takahashi
Narrator : Koji Yamaguchi
Still : Kaname Kondo
Music : Takashi Watanabe
Drums : Wataru Asada
Vocal : Hideo Kusumi
Cello : Yuko Noda
Clarinet : Kaori Inoue
Flute : Hiromi Kubota
Violin : Rumiko Kashiwade
Trombone : Tadashi Yonago
Piano : Michiko Furumoto
Recording Engineer : Yusuke Toyoura
Assistant Director : Mina Yonezawa
Assistant Cinematographer : Masashi Asaoka
Assistant Cinematographer : Daisuke Sakurai
Best Boy : Nanae Niwa
Assistant Editor : Daisuke Endo
Assistant Sound Mixer : Takashi Hisamichi
Assistant Sound Mixer : Satoru Iijima
Artwork : Koji Asano
Artwork : Yuko Inoue
Special Thanks
Studio Inter Field
Paradice Cafe inc.
Kobe Computer College
