1992 · comedy · sports · youth
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Directed by Masayuki Suō1h 45m1992
A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together to defeat their rivals or face disgrace and the disbandment of the sumo club.
Our read: Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · sports · youth entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / sports, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
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