Wrestling-Ring Festival

Wrestling-Ring Festival

80 mins | Action, History | March 30, 1944

According to Donal Richie in The Japanese Film it was meant to do for sumo wrestling what Kurosawa had done for judo in Sanshiro sugata, and that Kurosawa wrote it for Daiei after "drinking up all [his] money" (from his autobiography).

Wrestling-Ring Festival

80 mins | Action, History | March 30, 1944

Wrestling-Ring Festival
According to Donal Richie in The Japanese Film it was meant to do for sumo wrestling what Kurosawa had done for judo in Sanshiro sugata, and that Kurosawa wrote it for Daiei after "drinking up all [his] money" (from his autobiography).
Producers Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Original title 土俵祭
Directors Takashi Miyagawa, Santaro Marune
Writers Hikojiro Suzuki, Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Chiezō Kataoka

as Mt. Fuji