The sumo community here’s pretty low-volume / dormant, but things pick up a bit for the Japanese tournaments that happen several times a year. For the next couple weeks I’m going to be posting daily collections of videos about the May tournament that just started in Japan.
Imagine a pair of US football linebackers crashing against each other. But they can also slug each other in the face with open-palm strikes, do arm-locks, or throw/trip each other, and they’re not wearing any padding just wrestling belts. And there’s a priest urging them on, because they’re really doing all this for the gods of Shinto.
Check out this intro video and then swing by the sumo community for tournament update videos! Feel free to ask questions.
I love that series! I’ve watched it twice!
Did you know there was an earlier movie with the same name that’s a prequel to that? It’s kind of hard to find, but there’s a video on youtube of a couple drunk Texas sumotori watching that movie. (it takes them 5 minutes to figure out how to run the movie lel). The video was copyright-stricken in the US and Canada, but you can still see it if you’re in another country or have a VPN: https://youtu.be/Aij5PTNHdvY?t=290
Yes! I haven’t watched the movie, but apparently a few of the older cast members on the show were also in the movie. I’ll definitely check it out!