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Kanikôsen

Kanikôsen

20096.21h 49m

Overview

On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.

Directed by SABU
Written by Takiji Kobayashi, SABU
Produced by Yasushi Utagawa
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Top Cast

Ryuhei Matsuda

Ryuhei Matsuda

Shinjo

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Asakawa

Kengo Kora

Kengo Kora

Nemoto

Hirofumi Arai

Hirofumi Arai

Shioda

Tokio Emoto

Tokio Emoto

Shimizu

Takayuki Kinoshita

Takayuki Kinoshita

Kume

Takehiro Kimoto

Takehiro Kimoto

Yagi

Masaki Miura

Masaki Miura

Kobori

Terunosuke Takezai

Terunosuke Takezai

Hatanaka

Go Riju

Go Riju

Ishiba

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About Kanikôsen

Kanikôsen is a drama film released in 2009. Directed by SABU, it stars Ryuhei Matsuda, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kengo Kora. On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.

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