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- Movie: Kanikosen
- Romaji: Kanikosen
- Japanese: 蟹工船
- Director: SABU
- Assistant Director: Keinosuke Hara
- Writer: Takiji Kobayashi (novel)
- Producer: Yasushi Udagawa, Ryosuke Mameoka, Keigo Tanabe, Takahito Kashino
- Cinematographer: Takashi Komatsu
- Release Date: July 4, 2009
- Runtime: 109 min.
- Genre: Drama
- 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).
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