Shikasha

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.

Shikasha

2010 / 11 min

CAST

Machiko Ono
Keisuke Horibe
Naoto Nojima
Kanato Tanihata
Akishi Yamaguchi

STAFF

Director : Isamu Hirabayashi
Producer :Yuka Yoshigami
Cinematographer : Miki Ogawa
Gaffer : Yasuhiro Nomura
Production Design : Noriko Kato
Hair & Make : Rie Oba
Costume : Yuina Matsunaga
Editor : Mitsuhiro Horisaki
Music : Takashi Watanabe
Sound Design : Keitaro Iijima
Casting : Keiko Ogawa
Art Director : Ken Murakami
Still Photographer : Ani Watanabe
Making : Mina Yonezawa
Production Manager : Harumi Yokoyama
Camera Assistant : Sakura Seno
Camera Assistant : Ko Nakamura
Production Company : ROBOT

Film Festival

Directors' Fortnight (France)
Sundance Film Festival (USA)
Vancouver International Film Festival
"Apichatpong and Hirabayashi" (Canada)
Reykjavik International Film Festival (Iceland)
International Festival of Documentary and
Short Film of BILBAO (Spain)
PIA Film Festival (Japan)
Sendai Short Film Festival (Japan)
Festival Paris Cinema (France)

Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival (Portugal)