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The first trailer for Sabu's next film, Kanikosen (The Cannery Boat), is now online. Our friend in Japan, Jason Gray, said it was coming. He gave me the heads up last week that the site had gone live and it was only a matter of time before there would be a trailer available. I was ever vigilant, checking the site each day since then, looking for the trailer to come up. Trust it to come up during the day while I was at work.
Japanese filmmaker Sabu is returning to the director's chair after a three-year hiatus with an adaptation of Takiji Kobayashi's famed literary work The Crab Cannery Ship (Kanikosen). Nightmare Detective star Ryuhei Matsuda will play the lead role of a sailor who spearheads a mutiny against the oppressive ruling regime on a crab fishing and processing vessel. Matsuda is joined by cast members Hidetoshi Nishijima and Hirofumi Arai. Screen Daily
We've got the trailer in the Twitch Video Player. Or, you can find it on the official site here.
Its important that the readers of this site understand the recent popularity of the story of Kanikosen amongst dissatisfied Japanese youths in the workforce. Kanikosen annual sales have grown from 5,000 to 507,000 last year. This rise in popularity has cause for a manga adaption of the story, and now a movie version
For more informtion on the recent popularity of Kanikosen check out:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3218944/Japans-young-turn-to-Communist-Party-as-they-decide-capitalism-has-let-them-down.html
and
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/japa-n24.shtml