SOLITON

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.

SOLITON

2013 / 14 min

SYNOPSYS

There is a human here. There is a human there too.

STAFF

Director : Isamu Hirabayashi
Executive Producer : Yasuo Fukuro
Producer : Tatsuya Kaneko
Cinematographer : Miki Ogawa
Assistant Cinematographer : Sakura Seno
Production Design : Ryo Osato
Assistant Designer : Katsuaki Goto(NVC)
Assistant Designer : Tomoyuki Mogamiya(NVC)
Assistant Designer : Keisuke Wada(NVC)
Still Photographer : Ani Watanabe
Special Effects : Yasuhiro Nomura
Art Director : Ken Murakami
Assistant Director : Mina Yonezawa
Composer : Takashi Watanabe
Recording : Mamiko Katakura
Vocal : Takeshi Hirabayashi
Vocal : Midori Kurata
Sound Design : Keitaro Iijima
Foley Artist : Yu Arisawa
Foley Artist : Momoko Kan
Foley Artist : Chinatsu Motohiro
Foley Artist : Momoko Iijima
Assistant Sound Editor : Junki Tagawa
Assistant Sound Editor : Satoshi Naoki
Assistant Sound Editor : Taichi Nakazato
Assistant Sound Editor : Shotaro Yamada
Production Manager : Tomomi Ando
Production Manager : Sayaka Takahashi
Production Manager : Yudai Takahashi
Production Manager : Ikuo Inomata
Production Manager : Yuki Okada
Casting : KIZUNA.Inc
Cast : Saoto Tomioka(kiseki Co.Ltd)
Driver : Kenji Nakazawa(IBEX.CO.,LTD)
Camera Shop : KOKIHIFUMI
Location Cordinator : Miura Movie Residence
Special Thanks : KOKIHIFUMI
Sound Studio : Kobe Institute of Computing-College of Computing
Distributor : Tamaki Okamoto (CaRTe bLaNChe)
Production : BRAVO FILM

Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival Generation 14plus (Germany)
Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada)
Guanajuato International Film Festival (Mexico)