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Gaea Girls

6.7 104 mins Documentary   2000
Vixen Films   United Productions   BBC  
Director(s): Kim Longinotto Jano Williams

Release Date: 11 Mon, Sep 2000

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.

Casts of Gaea Girls

Chigusa Nagayo

as Herself

Meiko Satomura

as Herself

Yuka Sugiyama

as Herself

Saika Takeuchi

as Herself

Tomoko Kitamura

as Lioness Asuka

Kaoru Maeda

as KAORU

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