Gaea Girls
2000
- Jano Williams,Kim Longinotto
- 1h 44m
- September 11, 2000 · United Kingdom, Japan
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 11, 2000
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Japanese
- Countries
- United Kingdom, Japan
- Production
- BBC,United Productions,Vixen Films
- Cast
- Chigusa Nagayo,Meiko Satomura,Yuka Sugiyama,Saika Takeuchi,Hisako Sasaki,Tomoko Kitamura,Sonoko Kato,Kaoru Maeda
- Director
- Jano Williams,Kim Longinotto
- Writer
- Kim Longinotto,Jano Williams
- Producer
- Jano Williams,Kim Longinotto,David Pearson
- Cinematography
- Kim Longinotto
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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