
Gaea Girls
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 Nagaya, 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.
Gaea Girls
September 11, 2000
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Cast (8)

Chigusa Nagayo
Herself

Meiko Satomura
Herself

Yuka Sugiyama
Herself

Saika Takeuchi
Herself

Hisako Sasaki
N/A

Tomoko Kitamura
Lioness Asuka

Sonoko Kato
N/A

Kaoru Maeda
KAORU
Crew (3)
Directing

Kim Longinotto
Director

Jano Williams
Director
Writing

Kim Longinotto
Writer