Gaea Girls

Release Date: 2000-09-11

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.

Rating: 6.4 / 10

Cast

Chigusa Nagayo

as Herself

Meiko Satomura

as Herself

Yuka Sugiyama

as Herself

Saika Takeuchi

as Herself

Hisako Sasaki

Crew

Jano Williams - Director
Kim Longinotto - Director
Kim Longinotto - Writer
Jano Williams - Writer
Jano Williams - Producer

Reviews

dancingdrunkintothefuture:

raw depiction of shifting cultural ideology in Japan. fascinating divulsion into the brutal world of female wrestling which i had no idea existed in Japan. Logninotto offers a stripped back view, neve...