Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends 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. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.
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Mariko Tsutsui
Yoko Sakamoto
Known for
House of Ninjas
Antiporno
Keisuke Horibe
Nitobe
Known for
Tokyo Gore Police
Fukushima 50
Isamu Hirabayashi
Tatsuo Ito
Sayaka Takahashi
Aiko Sato
Known for
Pokémon: The First Movie
Takashi Watanabe
Madoka Katsumata
Hiromi Kitagawa
Also in
Mei's Butler
Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia's Case Files
Kenji Murakami
Atsuko Sudo
Also in
The Complex: Prologue
Chokolietta
Keitaro Iijima
Isamu Hirabayashi Director · Takashi Watanabe Composer Sayaka Takahashi Costume designer
United States release January 1, 2020 · Produced in Japan · Languages Finnish, Japanese
Production
Japan
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Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Finnish · Japanese
Release dates
Russia · April 22, 2019
Premiere · Moscow International Film Festival
United States · January 1, 2020
Slamdance Film Festival
Netherlands
January 23, 2020 · International Film Festival Rotterdam
Sweden
January 26, 2020 · Göteborg Film Festival.
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