Kanikosen (2009-Japan)
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- Movie: The Crab Cannery Ship
- Romaji: Kanikosen
- Japanese: 蟹工船
- Director: Hiroyuki Tanaka
- Writer: Takiji Kobayashi (novel)
- Producer:
- Cinematographer: Takashi Komatsu
- Release Date: July 4, 2009
- Runtime:
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Aboard the Japanese crab ship 'Kanikosen' equipped with a cannery facility, workers are forced to labor under pitiful conditions at minimum wages. Some even die of cruel labor and malnutrition. And to top it off, the factory superintendent Asakawa (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is the most brutal sort who does not treat the workers as human beings.
Shinjo (Ryuhei Matsuda), one of the workers, persuades the others that they should wish to become rich in their next life as there is no future for them in the present. So all of them try to commit suicides, which ends up in a comedy of errors. SHINJO then escapes the Kanikosen and is rescued by a Soviet vessel. He is astonished by the new social system on the vessel that is so much different from the one he left behind. In realization, Shinjo returns to the ship to save the others.
Notes
- Based on Takiji Kobayashi's 1929 novel "Kanikosen".
- Filmed on location in Ashikaga City in Tochigi Prefecture (beginning late Nov. 2008).
Cast
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| Ryuhei Matsuda | Hidetoshi Nishijima | Kengo Kora | Hirofumi Arai | Tokio Emoto |
| Shinjo | Asakawa | Nemoto | Shioda | Shimizu |
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| Takayuki Kinoshita | Takehiro Kimoto | Masaki Miura | Terunosuke Takezai | Go Riju |
| Kume | Yagi | Kobori | Hatanaka | Ishiba |
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| Yutaka Shimizu | Hiroshi Yamamoto | Motofumi Takaya | Toru Tezuka | Sarutoki Minagawa |
| Kida | Yamaji | Miyaguchi | Chinaman |
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| Kenichi Yajima | Taisei Miyamoto | Yasuhi Nakamura | Toru Nomaguchi | Yuya Takayama |
| Executive | Ship master | Radio engineer |
Additional Cast Members:
- Ryoko Takizawa
- Leo Morimoto
- Kaoru Okunuki
- Mitsuki Tanimura - Miyoko
- Ren Osugi
- Shun Sugata
- Shungiku Uchida
- Denden - Monk
Teaser Trailer
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Film Festivals
- 2009 (14th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 8th-16th - A Window on Asian Cinema
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