Film · 2000 · Belgesel

Gaea Girls

Yönetmen

Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams

Süre

104 dk

Oyuncular

長与千種, 里村明衣子, Yuka Sugiyama, Saika Takeuchi, 佐々木久子, 北村智子, Sonoko Kato, 前田薫

This fascinating documentary is based around the Japanese wrestling organisation Gaea's rural training camp, and traces, in the main, the careers of four hopefuls. In charge are two magnificent specimens, the butch champion Chigusa Nagayo, still venting her hurt at the hands of her army father as she tries to whip her surrogate daughters through the pain and commitment barriers; and her sophisticated and slightly menacing Chairman. It's a gruelling, physical film, as you would expect, but the makers don't make heavy weather of it. And it certainly disposes of any idea that the game is faked.