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Kanikôsen
62%
Movie
1h 49m
AI Analysis
Kanikôsen (2009) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Kanikôsen (2009) — a movie tagged as Drama with balanced tone moods and fast-paced pacing.
Story & themes: 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 other… Our models also surface themes such as ai from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~109 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Kanikôsen 62% (6 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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TMDb audience score
62%
from 6 TMDb votes
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Synopsis
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.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 2009-07-04
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- TMDB rating
- 6.2
- TMDB ID
- 105139
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What is Kanikôsen about?
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 malnutri... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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How long is the movie Kanikôsen?
The official runtime for Kanikôsen is approximately 109 minutes.
Cast & crew
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Directors & writers
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
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Motofumi Takaya
Miyaguchi
Toru Tezuka
Chinaman
Sarutoki Minagawa
Kenichi Yajima
Taisei Miyamoto
Yasuhi Nakamura
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