CYCLE: DIRECTOR

From 18.04. To 09.05.2005.

Program of Japanese contemporary films

Masayuki Suo

29.10.1956, Tokio

Suo is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He made films such as Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yomesan (Spring Bride, 1983), Fanshî dansu (Fancy dance, 1989), Shiko funjatta (Sumo do, sumo don't, 1992), Ijô no hitobito: Densetsuno nijino sankyôdai (1993) and Shall we dansu? (Shall we dance?, 1996).

Filmography

Films by this director

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

(Shiko funjatta, 1992)

Directed by: Masayuki Suo

PHOTOGRAPHY: Naoki Kayano

Synopsis:

Sumo is the Japanese national sport, but among young Japanese men it is regarded as “three K”, (kitsui, kitanai, kiken, or hard, dirty and dangerous), or very unpopular. Shuhei (Masahiro Motoki), a young student, agrees with these opinions. His professor, Anayama, (Akira Emoto), a former sumo champion, blackmails him: if Shuhei wants to graduate, he has to save the university’s sumo club. The club has just one member, a skinny loser named Aoki (Naoto Takenaka), and will soon be dismantled. In or...

color, 105 minuta

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