Gaea Girls
2000•1h 44m•6.7•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Jano Williams
Writer
Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams
Languages
Japanese
Studio
Vixen Films
Cast
Chigusa Nagayo
Herself
Meiko Satomura
Herself
Yuka Sugiyama
Herself
Saika Takeuchi
Herself
Hisako Sasaki
Tomoko Kitamura
Lioness Asuka
Sonoko Kato
Kaoru Maeda
KAORU
Production
Company
Vixen Films
Company
United Productions
Company
BBC
Producer
Jano Williams
Producer
Kim Longinotto
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