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



Ryuhei Matsuda	Hidetoshi Nishijima	Kengo Kora	Hirofumi Arai	Tokio Emoto
Shinjo	Asakawa	Nemoto	Shioda	Shimizu



Takayuki Kinoshita	Takehiro Kimoto	Masaki Miura	Terunosuke Takezai	Go Riju
Kume	Yagi	Kobori	Hatanaka	Ishiba



Yutaka Shimizu	Hiroshi Yamamoto	Motofumi Takaya	Toru Tezuka	Sarutoki Minagawa
Kida	Yamaji	Miyaguchi	Chinaman



Kenichi Yajima	Taisei Miyamoto	Yasuhi Nakamura	Toru Nomaguchi	Yuya Takayama
Executive	Ship master	Radio engineer

Additional Cast Members:

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Film Festivals

2009 (14th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 8th-16th - A Window on Asian Cinema
2010 (60th) Berlin International Film Festival - February 11th-21th - Forum
2010 (34th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 21st-April 6th - Auteurs
2010 (43rd) Sitges Film Festival - October 7-14 - Seven Chances

Comments

Comment #5
diraya kakkoi Says:
Mar 24 2012 7:59 am

awsome :)
Comment #4
Raku Says:
Feb 15 2009 7:26 am

Blessing Bell is probably my favourite but they're all great.
Comment #3
WikiSysop Says:
Feb 14 2009 10:22 pm

I feel a little bit behind the times, I have yet to see a Sabu film :) But looking forwards to this ...will report back after so.
Comment #2
Raku Says:
Feb 14 2009 7:24 pm

arrgh it's so good to see footage froma sabu movie again!
Comment #1
Raku Says:
Nov 12 2008 1:16 pm

Anything Sabu is automatically on my Most Anticipated list.