
Gaea Girls

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 Nagaya, 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.
Genre: Documentary
Actor: Chigusa Nagayo, Meiko Satomura, Yuka Sugiyama, Saika Takeuchi, Hisako Sasaki, Tomoko Kitamura, Sonoko Kato, Kaoru Maeda
Director: Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams, Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams
Country: United Kingdom, Japan
Produced By: BBC
Runtime: 104
Release: 2000
Rating: 6.1 out of 10
Language: English, 日本語,
Views: 559
Content Rating:N/A
Quality: DVD
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