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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">As has been the case with previous screenings at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, FCCJ Movie Committee organizer Karen Severns is inviting KineJapan members to this a special preview screening of <i>The Crab Cannery Ship</i> with director Sabu available afterwards for Q&A. Interested members should contact Karen Severns to reserve a place: <a href="mailto:kjs30@gol.com">kjs30@gol.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Respectfully submitted,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Jonathan M Hall</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Special Sneak Preview Screening: Kanikosen</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Time: 2009 May 28 19:00 - 21:30</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Summary:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING followed by a Q&A session with the film's director, Sabu</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2009. 7:00 p.m. 20th floor</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">KANIKOSEN (THE CRAB CANNERY SHIP) Japan, 2009. 109 minutes.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Written and directed by Sabu</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Based on Takiji Kobayashi’s Kanikosen</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Produced by Yasushi Udagawa</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Hirofumi Arai, Tokio Emoto, Kengo Kora and comedy duo TKO (Takehiro Kimoto and Takayuki Kinoshita)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Film courtesy of Xanadeux</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Language:In Japanese, with English subtitles</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Description:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Movie Committee is pleased to host this special sneak preview of Kanikosen ahead of its nationwide opening in June.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you've been wondering what fires up today's Japanese youth, look no further: For the past several years, Takiji Kobayashi's 1929 novel Kanikosen, about a workers' revolt on a crab cannery ship, has been surging in popularity due to the sense of exploitation that many young "freeter" workers in the Japanese workforce are experiencing. A landmark in proletarian literature, Kobayashi's novel was a steady seller until last year, when a new edition and a manga version sent sales spiraling from 5,000 to over 500,000. Now, iconoclastic director Sabu has created a live-action version that plays up his own black-comic vision and is sure to electrify Japan's under-30 underclass.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The film is set on a crab fishing/processing vessel in the Sea of Okhotsk, where the evil supervisor (Nishijima) has pushed the workers to the limits of human endurance. After considering mass suicide as a way out of their misery (in one of the film's funniest sequences), the shipmates gradually band together to find ways to overcome the oppressive ruling regime. Nightmare Detective star Ryuhei Matsuda plays the sailor who spearheads a mutiny, but only after he's escaped and spent time on a very loopy Russian crab ship.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Writer-director Sabu (aka Hiroyuki Tanaka) has won awards from Bangkok to Berlin for his absurdist, frenetic films, including a FIPRESCI Prize in 2003 for The Blessing Bell. Among his other titles are D.A.N.G.A.N. Runner (which inspired Run Lola Run), Postman Blues, Unlucky Monkey, Drive, Hold Up Down and Dead Run.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">All movie screenings are private, noncommercial events restricted to FCCJ members and their guests.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Karen Severns, Edwin Karmiol. Movie Committee.</div> </body></html>