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Kanikôsen

Name: Kanikôsen
Genre: Drama
Released: 2009-07-04
Duration: 109 min
Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kengo Kora, Hirofumi Arai, Tokio Emoto

蟹工船

Drama

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TMDB rating · 6 votes

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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.

Director: SABU
Writers: Takiji Kobayashi, SABU
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Release date: 4 July 2009

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