Gaea Girls

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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 Nagayo, 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.

Release Date

2000-09-11

Year

2000

Duration

1h 44m

Status

Released

Score

6.40

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Cast

Chigusa Nagayo

Chigusa Nagayo

Meiko Satomura

Meiko Satomura

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Yuka Sugiyama

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Saika Takeuchi

Hisako Sasaki

Hisako Sasaki

Tomoko Kitamura

Tomoko Kitamura

Lioness Asuka

Sonoko Kato

Sonoko Kato

Kaoru Maeda

Kaoru Maeda

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