Wrestling-Ring Festival

Overview

According to Donal Richie in The Japanese Film it was meant to do for sumo wrestling what Kurosawa had done for judo in Sanshiro sugata, and that Kurosawa wrote it for Daiei after "drinking up all [his] money" (from his autobiography).

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 30, 1944

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Daiei Film

Cast

Chiezo Kataoka,Haruyo Ichikawa,Mitsusaburō Ramon,Isamu Yamaguchi,Akira Kishii,Masao Oi,Kōichi Katsuragi,Kensaku Hara

Director

Santaro Marune

Writer

Akira Kurosawa,Hikojiro Suzuki

Producer

Tatsuo Asano

Cinematography

Kazuo Miyagawa

Music

Goro Nishi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt9834028