Kanikousen
Movie
蟹工船
2009/07/04
Speech duration
35min
Word count5,182
Unique words1,242
Words (1-occurrence)680
Unique kanji589
Kanji (1-occurrence)211
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
327
External Rating
62 %

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.

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Genres
Drama