AW: Kani kosen boom?

Roland Domenig roland.domenig
Tue Oct 14 21:53:35 EDT 2008


Mark,
there is indeed a Kanikosen-Boom going on in Japan which is rather curious. It might have been triggered by a taidan between Takahashi Gen'ichiro and Amamiya Karin (the "heroin" of Tsuchiya Yutaka's "A New God") in the Mainichi Shinbun on January 9, in which Amamiya likened the situation of today's freeters with the situation of the workers on the factory boat in Kobayashi Takuji's novel from the 1920s. Bookstores started to display the book prominently targeting the increasing number of working poor. The positive echo to the book, especially from young people, spread rapidly and the book made it into the bestseller list and within 3 months it sold 350.000 times whereas in ordinary years the published Shinchosha sold 5000 copies at most. From the boom profited also a manga version of Kanikosen by Fujio Go published last November by  Higashi Ginza Shuppansha. Curious about the Kanikosen-boom is that the Japan Communist Party witnesses an increase in new party members. According to the chairman of the Japan Communist Party Shii Kazuo JCP-membership had stayed around 400.000 until 2000, but this year about 1.000 new members have been signing up each month which he attributes in part to the popularity of Kanikosen.

Roland


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Von: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu [owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] im Auftrag von Mark Nornes [amnornes at umich.edu]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2008 01:18
An: KineJapan
Betreff: Kani kosen boom?

Yamada Kazuo's still at it. The Eisenstein Cineclub has a curious event coming up. Seems there is a Kani kosen boom going on? Really?

What caught my eye was the connection between the book and Battleship Potemkin. Does anyone know about this? If anyone goes, report back!

Markus





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