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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.
5+Camera
2010 / 21 min

CAST
Yuko Nakamura
Karia Nomoto
Miyuki
Chin-kana
Tamaki Matsuda
Yumiko Simizu
STAFF
Director : Isamu Hirabayashi
Exective Producer : Yasuo Fukuro
Producere : Tatsuya Kaneko
Cinematographer : Miki Ogawa
VIdeo Engineer : Tomofumi Igarashi
Assistant Camera : Masaki Nishioka
Gaffer : Yasuhiro Nomura
Assistant Light : Keisuke Ikeda
Assistant Light : Yoshiyuki Takahashi
Assistant Light : Randy Mizutani/Shinya Ishiduka
Decorator : Yuiko Yokoi
Assistant Decorator : Rie Ishiki
Sound Engineer : Katsuyuki Yamada
Sound Assistant : Ryosuke Seki(ONKIO HAUS)
Sound Assistant : Tsukasa Suzuki
Stylist/Tatsuhiko Marumoto(eight peace)
Assistant Stylist : Hideyuki Hayashi
Assistant Stylist : Mari Nerigi
Costume Design : Tetsuya Uetake
Hair Stylist : YUUK(super-sonic)
Assistant of Hair : Hitomi Mineo
Assistant of Hair : Tomomi Kojya
Assistant of Hair : Mayumi Kobayashi
Make : LYAR(PRIMAL)
Assistant of Make : Takafumi S
Assistant of Make : Miki Adachi
Still Photographer : Ani Watanabe
Making : Mina Yonezawa
Art Director : Ken Murakami
Music : Takashi Watanabe
Conductor : Terumichi Aoyama
1st violin : Aya Yamamoto
2st violin : Sumire Kisu
Viola : Mariko Okada
Cello : Yoko Eguchi
Piano : Michiko Furumoto
Cho : Momoko : Midori Kurata
Recording Mix : Yusuke Toyoura
Sound Mix&Foley : Keitaro Iijima
Foley Assistant : Koujiro Yamamoto
Foley Assistant : Mitsunori Uchigashima
Foley Assistant : Shohei Sugimoto
Foley Assistant : Sou Yamamura
Foley Assistant : Wataru Chouraku
Foley Assistant : Momoko
Sound Recordins Studio : Studio 301
Casting : Keiichiro Uryu
Casting : Kaoru Okamura
Casting : Hironobu Funabiki
Production Manager : Tomomi Ando
Production Manager : Naho Matsushima
Special Thanks
Light Studio(Light Photo Works CO.,Ltd.)
kokihihumi CO.,Ltd.
Lucky lighting CO.,Ltd.
Kobe Institute of Computing-College of Computing
PROPS NOW
moof
ONKIO HAUS
Production/BRAVO FILM






FILM FESTIVAL
Guam International Film Festival (USA)
Festival du Nouveau Cinema - Montreal (Canada)
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