The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
2018 film
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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.[1] The film was produced by Kazunao Sakaguchi.[2]
Toranosuke Aizawa
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| Directed by | Takahisa Zeze |
| Screenplay by | Takahisa Zeze Toranosuke Aizawa |
| Produced by | Kazunao Sakaguchi |
| Narrated by | Masatoshi Nagase |
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Running time | 189 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The film won the Busan Film Festival's Bright East Films Award while in production in 2016.[3][4] The film premiered in North America during New York City's 2019 CineCina film festival.[5]
Plot
After the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, Tomoyo Hanagiku runs away from her abusive husband and joins a women's sumo group. She meets a group of young people a part of an anarchist group called the Guillotine Association, and connect over shared ideas of an equal and free society.[1] To earn money, Tomoyo tours the country with the sumo group she joined by doing shows.[6]
Cast
- Shun Sugata as Maruman
- Masatoshi Nagase as Narrator
- Masahiro Higashide as Tetsu Nakahama
- Arata Iura as Genjiro Muraki
- Kyusaku Shimada as Hanbee Tanaka
- Kanichiro Sato as Daijirō Furuta
- Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Tamasaburo Iwaki
- Shohei Uno as Kazuo Morimoto
- Ryo Ikeda as Kozo Kawai
- Takashi Yamanaka as Kyutaro Wada
- Tomoki Kimura as Maichi Naka
- Tatsushi Ômori as Matsutaro Shoriki
- Yota Kawase as Kantaro Sakata
- Yoko Kamon as Mitsu Tamatsubaki
- Ayaka Onishi as Katsu Katsutora
- Maho Yamada as Haru Kozakura
- Hanae Kan as Tamae Tokachigawa
- Haruki Takano as Kichiji
