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.
BABIN
2008 / 30 min
SYNOPSIS
In the forest, a man is buried up to his waist and repeats an interminable and incomprehensible monologue. His seclusion is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a little boy…
Cast
Keisuke Horibe
Naoto Nojima
Satoshi Takahashi
STAFF
Director : Isamu Hirabayashi
Producer : Yoshinari Natsumeda
Producer : Takao Odamiya
Cinematographer : Miki Ogawa
Gaffer : Yasuhiro Nomura
Recording : Takashi Ito
Production Design : Noriko Kato
Music : Takashi Watanabe
Make : Yoshito Shiraishi
Stylist : Yuina Matsunaga
Costume Design : HIkaru Komatsu
Special Effects : Yuji Tanaka
Art : Kiyoshi Kagiyama
Assistant Producere : Takuya Fukui
Production Manager : Yu Yamazaki
Assistant Director : Yujiro Mukai
Assistant Director : Masakazu KIkuchi
Assistant Director : Shigeto Okada
Assistant Director : Mina Yonezawa
Camera Assistant : Yusuke Suga
Camera Assistant : Ryo Ishida
Camera Assistant : Fumiko Mishiro
Light Assistant : Hidehiko Ehara
Light Assistant : Hidenori Ehara
Light Assistant : Yoshitaka Igarashi
Recording Assistant : Shinichi Oinuma
Assistant Designer : Hirokazu Abe
Sound Mixer : Takeshi Kino
Sound Effects : Naoki Takahashi
Still : Kaname Kondo
Driver : Takumi Yanagawa
Sound Recording : Yusuke Toyoura
Piano : Michiko Furumoto
Vocal : Midori Kurata
Shamisen : Katsujuro Kineya
Guiter, Bass & Vocal : Hideo Kusumi
Bass Clarinet : Terumichi Aoyama
Drums : Dai Hamamoto
Recording Studio : Kobe Institute of Computing-College of Computing
Post Production : Studio Inter Field
Post Production : TOEI Labo Tech
Production Company : Paradice Cafe inc.
Production Company : Gauguins International inc.
ndjc 2007
New Directors in Japanese Cinema 2007
commissioned by Agency for Cultural Affairs
Supervisor : Shiro Sasaki
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