The Student Wrestler
Shorts
UK Premiere
Date:
Saturday 19 November 2011 at 1:45pm
(Gakusei Puro Resuraa)
The Student Wrestler
The life and times of a Japanese student wrestler
Dir:
Yumehito Imanari
22min
2010
Documentary
Winner of the Audience Award at the Image Forum Festival 2010, The Student Wrestler is a revealing documentary portrait of the homosocial world of a university wrestling club and its leading light Tominaga, a young man more interested in hanging out with his mates than graduating.
This film will be shown at the start of Shinpei Takeda's Hiroshima Nagasaki Download.