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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.
MATOU
2011 / 4 min
CAST
Karia Nomoto
STAFF
Director : Isamu Hirabayashi
Cinematographer : Kohide Nakashima
Gaffer : Yasuhiro Nomura
Make Up : Seiji Kamikawa
Costume : Yuina Matsunaga
Still Photographer : Ani Watanabe
Music : Takashi Watanabe
Sound Design : Keitaro Iijima
Foley : Teruhisa Kawashima
Foley Assistant : Naoto Sato
Assistant Director : Mina Yonezawa
Assistant Cinematographer : Kei Nakamura
Best boy : Keisuke Ikeda
Producer : Yasuo Fukuro
Production Manager : Tomomi Ando
Special Thanks
TATEOKA OFFICE Co.,Ltd
Kokihihumi Co.,Ltd
Studio Doll Up
KAWACHI CO.LTD
Holbein Art Materials inc.
SENDAI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2011
Film Festival
Sapporo International Short Film Festival (Japan)
Award / Best Mini Short Award
Award / Best Experimental Award
Sendai Short Film Festival (Japan)
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan)
Tama Cinema Forum (Japan)
Kobe Documentary Film Festival (Japan)
Kitashinano Obuse Film Festival (Japan)
Art Film Festival of Aichi Arts Center (Japan)
Endouji Film Festival (Japan)
Drop Cinema Festival (Japan)
Yebisu International Festival (Japan)
Hamamatsu Film Festival (Japan)
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