Kanikosen (2009)

Directed by

SABU

How it feels

Workers on a brutal Japanese crab ship endure extreme exploitation and violence. One man tries to lead them in a mass suicide that goes absurdly wrong, then escapes to a Soviet ship where a different social order opens his eyes.

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