AFI FEST Los Angeles International Film Festival 2009

Notice! Registration is not required to browse the site, track audience buzz, and learn about the festival. If you choose to register, you can create a personal festival calendar, rate and review films, and receive updates about upcoming screenings. Close
    • highlights
    • films
    • schedule
    • buzz
    • my festival
Kanikosen
Sabu
Categories: World Cinema
Average Rating:
Rated 0.0/5 Stars
My Rating:
Run time: 109 min.
Though famed at home for his wacky comedies, the 45-year-old Japanese actor/director Sabu remains virtually unknown in the US. His latest, inspired by a 1929 left-wing agitprop novel that became sensationally popular after being translated into Manga genre graphic fiction, veers in striking, politically motivated new directions while retaining moments of his outlandish brand of humor. The film follows the workers on a crab-canning ship who are brutally, mercilessly exploited by callous corporate bosses. Shiro, an enigma among them, doesn’t complain or lament, but he does suggest they regain their dignity. First, he proposes mass suicide (in a scene that Sabu, amazingly, manages to mutate into slapstick comedy). After Shiro and a buddy are rescued at sea by a Russian ship, Sabu choreographs an astonishing dance sequence. How to describe KANIKOSEN’s strange splendors? Imagine Sergei Eisenstein put into a blender with Busby Berkeley.

–Rose Kuo
1 picture Pictures
Screenings
time venue calendar tickets
10:00 PM     Wed, Nov 04 Mann Chinese Theater 3 + add to cal buy tickets
11:00 AM     Fri, Nov 06 Santa Monica Laemmle Theater 4 + add to cal buy tickets
About the film
Cast & Crew
director
Sabu
 
screenwriter
Sabu
based on the novel by Kobayashi Takiji
Cast
Arai Hirfumi
Emoto Tokio
Kimoto Takehiro
Kinoshita Takayuki
Kora Kongo
Matsuda Ryuhei
Nishijima Hidetoshi
producer
Mameoka Ryosuke
Tanabe Keigo
Utagawa Yasushi
cinematographer
Komatsu Takashi
editor
Bando Naoya
music director
Mori Takashi
Audience Buzz
Rated 0.0/5 Stars
0.0 | 0
views 419 people viewed this page
adds 33 people added it to their calendar (find out who)
adds people who added this also added
Like it? Share it with friends
Share
Your friend's email:

Your message:

Your name:

Your email:

Copy me too: