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Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Original title: Shiko Funjatta
1992 · Director: Masayuki Suo · JP
What it is about
Members of a failing university sumo club must enter competition to save it from closure.
The fighting in it
A comedy that nonetheless explains the ritual and technical side of amateur sumo — the entry, the salt, the mawashi grip — and above all that sumo is about balance and timing, not just mass.