''The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine'' is a 2018 film directed by
Takahisa Zeze
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic ''pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . In recent years, he ha ...
about women's
sumo
is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by thr ...
wrestling and anarchism after the
1923 Great Kanto earthquake.
The film won the
Busan Film Festival
The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF, previously Pusan International Film Festival, PIFF), held annually in Haeundae-gu, Busan (''also'' Pusan), South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. The first festiv ...
's Bright East Films Award while in production in 2016. The film premiered in North America during New York City's 2019
CineCina film festival.
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Girochinsha
Girochinsha (Guillotine Society) was an early 20th century Japanese anarchist group that unsuccessfully targeted members of the imperial state. Their early 1920s plot to attack the crown prince Hirohito led to the hanging of members Furuta Dai ...
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Films about anarchism
Women's sumo
2010s Japanese films
2010s Japanese-language films
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