Kanikôsen (2009)

6.2/10 109 min Drama

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.

Cast

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

Yutaka Shimizu

Kida

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Yamaji

Toru Tezuka

Chinaman

Sarutoki Minagawa

Kenichi Yajima

Taisei Miyamoto

Yasuhi Nakamura

Yûya Takayama

Ryoko Takizawa

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