Wrestling-Ring Festival

History, Action · 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).

Starring

Akira Kurosawa, Kazuo Miyagawa, Chiezō Kataoka, Haruyo Ichikawa, Gorô Nishi, Tatsuo Asano, Mitsusaburō Ramon, Isamu Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kawamura

Director

Santaro Marune