The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2018)
- Original title
- 菊とギロチン
- Directed by
- Takahisa Zeze
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 3h 09m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
After a devastating earthquake, a group of women in 1920s Japan start a sumo wrestling troupe, pushing back against social norms while anarchists around them plot for political change.
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What happens
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (Japanese: 菊とギロチン, Hepburn: Kiku to girochin) is a 2018 Japanese film directed by Takahisa Zeze about women's sumo wrestling and anarchism after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. The film was produced by Kazunao Sakaguchi. The film won the Busan Film Festival'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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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