aramaki

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.

aramaki

2009 / 26 min

CAST

Keisuke Horibe

STAFF

Director : Isamu Hirabayashi
Producer : Takao Odamiya
Production Manager : Yuta Yanagihori
Cinematographer : Miki Ogawa
Assistant Cinematographer : Ko Nakamura
Special Effects : Yasuhiro Nomura
Production Design : Noriko Kato
Assistant Designer : Katsuyoshi Sasaki
Still : Kaname Kondo
Assistant Director : Mina Yonezawa
Art Director : Ken Murakami
Music : Takashi Watanabe
Sound Mix : Keitaro Iijima
Recording : Yusuke Toyoura
Conductor : Terumichi Aoyama
Flute & Piccolo : Keiko Ueda
Clarinet : Toshiyuki Muranishi
Violin : Aya Yamamoto
Viola : Momoko Otsuki
Cello : Yuko Noda
Guitar, Bass & Vocal : Hideo Kusumi
Drums : Dai Hamamoto
Chorus : Midori Kurata
Paradice Cafe INC.
Hiromi Moriya(Rich Land)

Kobe Institute of Computing-College of Computing

Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival (Germany)
Vancouver International Film Festival
"Apichatpong and Hirabayashi" (Canada)
PIA Film Festival (Japan)
Sendai Short Film Festival (Japan)
Image Forum Festival (Japan)