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Kanikosen
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Kanikosen
Sabu, 2009, Japan, 109m
This vision of shipboard revolt may not be Potemkin redux, but, its postmodern gags and spikey haired actors notwithstanding, it’s not so far away. Kanikosen (translated as The Crab Canning Ship) is based on a 1929 muckracking agitprop by martyred leftist writer Takiji Kobayashi but its most direct source is the recent manga (graphic novel) version published amid the current recession, that gave the text a second life among Japanese youth. Enter the filmmaker and sometimes actor who calls himself Sabu. His Kanikosen is not simply cartoonish (or kabuki) but purposefully anachronistic and powerfully absurd—a work of protest and, thanks to one exceedingly funny musical number, an entertaining celebration of proletariat internationalism.
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