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.
OCTOPUS
2015 / 25 min
CAST
Kanako Higashi
Keisuke Horibe
Naoto Nojima
Tatsuya Gasyuin
Masahiro Kiyota
Hironori Kogure
Mizuki Komatsu
Yaeko Kiyose
Tadashi Bise
Madoka Katsumata
Yasuhiro Nomura
STAFF
Director : Isamu Hirabayashi
Executive Producer : Madoka Katsumata
Producer : Takashi Nakamura
Assistant Director : Motoyuki Itabashi
Production Manager : Yutaka Moritomo
Cinematographer : Miki Ogawa
Assistant Cinematographer : Hikaru Shirasawa
Gaffer : Yasuhiro Nomura
Assistant Light : Shinya Ishiduka
Assistant Light : Takamasa Furukawa
Production Design : Ryo Osato
Assistant Designer : Katsuaki Goto(NVC)
Costume : Megumi Mochizuki
Assistant Stylist : Yui Funami
Hair & Make : Nori
Hair & Make : Asumi Washizuka
Recording : Yasuo Hijikata
Assistant Recording : Takuya Kubo
Assistant Recording : Kento Yahagi
Music : Takashi Watanabe
Sound Mix : Keitaro Iijima
Assistant Sound Mix : Naoki Kagawa
Assistant Sound Mix : Reo Kuroshita
Assistant Sound Mix : Takehide Takaki
Assistant Sound Mix : Saho Nagatani
Assistant Sound Mix : Momoe Yamaguchi
Art Director : Ken Murakami
Offline Editor : Mina Yonezawa
Still Photographer : Ani Watanabe
Still Photographer : Yuichi Nagai
Assistant Production Manager : Sakura Sekomune
Camera Shop : Kokihihumi CO.,Ltd.
Light Shop : Lucky lighting CO.,Ltd.
Recording Studio :
Kobe Institute of Computing-College of
Computing Studio 301
Production Company :
DASH CO.,Ltd.
demand CO.,Ltd.
