Re: Foreigners save university's sumo club

[Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>]

The original Japanese title is "Shiko Funjatta" directed by Mr. Masayuki 
Suo who became very popular in directing film "Shall We Dance?". The 
English title of the sumo film is "Sumo Do, Sumo Don't."
http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/comedy/sumodo/sumodo.html
http://www.jfcairo.com/event/film_fes_90/sumo.html
http://www.gary.gray.clara.net/reviews/sumodosumodont.htm

The modeled college is Rikkyo University in Tokyo, owened and operated by 
Anglican Episcopal Church of Japan.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/kyouritsu/

You'll find plenty of information on "Shall We Dance?" in Web, if you want.

-Toshiyori Masumiriki



At 8:54 PM -0500 8/1/02, Richard Moczygemba wrote:
>My guess is a film called "The Mighty Sumo Club", a comedy advertised on TV
>Japan in the early 90's.  Probably only released in Japan, I never had the
>opportunity to view it.
>
>Fredrik Norberg wrote:
>
>>   "the popularity of the superstar brothers Wakanohana and Takanohana, and
>>  also
>>  the year a sumo film became a box office hit and took sumo popularity to
>>  even dizzier heights, the Hiroshima University Sumo Club boasted all of nine
>>  members."
>>
>>  Anybody who has more information about which film this might be ?
>>
>>  /Fredrik Norberg
>>  Harunochiba