- Country: Finland, Japan
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 2020-01-01
- Director: Isamu Hirabayashi
- Writers: N/A
- Language: Japanese | Finnish
- Stars: Mariko Tsutsui , Keisuke Horibe , Kaori Takeshita , Kanako Higashi , Ruka Ishikawa , Hiromi Kitagawa , Ayano Kudô , Koharu Kusumi , Aiko Sato
- Runtime: 154 min
- Awards: 3 nominations
- AKA: SHELL and JOINT (Japan) , Shell and Joint , Shell and Joint (United Kingdom) , Skrzypce i skorupki (Poland) , Kabuk ve Eklem (Turkey)
- Plot: 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.
- IMDB:tt10052156
Shell and Joint Cast · · · ALL
Isamu Hirabayashi
Director
Mariko Tsutsui
Yoko Sakamoto
Keisuke Horibe
Nitobe
Aiko Sato
Hiromi Kitagawa
Atsuko Sudo
Koharu Kusumi
Kanako Higashi
Sakura Sakurada
Ayano Kudô
Naoto Nojima
Ken Ishigai
Karia Nomoto
Kaori Takeshita
Mizuho Misato