
One Million Yen Girl(2008)
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.


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.

Ryuhei Matsuda
Shinjo

Hidetoshi Nishijima
Asakawa

Kengo Kora
Nemoto

Hirofumi Arai
Shioda

Tokio Emoto
Shimizu

Takayuki Kinoshita
Kume

Takehiro Kimoto
Yagi

Masaki Miura
Kobori

Terunosuke Takezai
Hatanaka

Go Riju
Ishiba
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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