(Tokyo) Thursday preview screening: Kani Kosen

[anne mcknight]

Sure, sounds good.
See you there.

2009/5/25 Jonathan M Hall <jmhall at uci.edu>

> 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 *The
> Crab Cannery Ship* with director Sabu available afterwards for Q&A.
>  Interested members should contact Karen Severns to reserve a place:
> kjs30 at gol.com
>
> Respectfully submitted,
>
> Jonathan M Hall
>
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> Special Sneak Preview Screening: Kanikosen
>
> Time: 2009 May 28 19:00 - 21:30
> Summary:
> SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING followed by a Q&A session with the film's
> director, Sabu
>
> THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2009. 7:00 p.m. 20th floor
>
> KANIKOSEN (THE CRAB CANNERY SHIP) Japan, 2009. 109 minutes.
>
> Written and directed by Sabu
> Based on Takiji Kobayashi’s Kanikosen
> Produced by Yasushi Udagawa
> Starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Hirofumi Arai, Tokio Emoto,
> Kengo Kora and comedy duo TKO (Takehiro Kimoto and Takayuki Kinoshita)
>
> Film courtesy of Xanadeux
>
> Language:In Japanese, with English subtitles
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> Description:
>
> The Movie Committee is pleased to host this special sneak preview of
> Kanikosen ahead of its nationwide opening in June.
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> All movie screenings are private, noncommercial events restricted to FCCJ
> members and their guests.
>
> Karen Severns, Edwin Karmiol. Movie Committee.
>
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