Sumo East and West
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pulled from site's meta descriptionSumo East and West is a feature documentary about the cultural changes facing Japan as more and more foreigners enter this ancient Japanese sport of sumo wrestling. In Japan sumo is not only the national sport but a centuries-old cultural treasure. Yet this highly traditional world is facing profound changes due to the arrival of bigger, heavier wrestlers of Polynesian descent. At the same time, sumo is growing in popularity in the West, where its advocates are lobbying for its inclusion in the Olympics and staging amateur sumo tournaments in venues like Las Vegas casinosÛevents that bear little resemblance to the sport's Japanese forebear.
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- Sumo
- Ferne Pearlstein
- Robert Edwards
- Bob Edwards
- Documentary
- Japanese sport
- Film
- Sundance Cinematography Award
- Manny Yarbrough
- Emanuel Yarbrough
- Wayne Vierra
- Jesse Kuhaulua
- Akebono
- Konishiki
- Jesse Takamiyama Kuhaulua
- Azumazeki
- Takamiyama
- Yokozuna
- Grand Champion
- Tribeca Film Festival
- IFP Los Angeles Film Festival
- Wrestling
- Maxine Vierra
- Oahu Sumo Club
- Cranford Sumo Club
- Yoshisada Yonezuka
- Kena Heffernan
- Jake Heffernan
- Sentoryu
- Henry Miller
- PIC
- Pacific Islander's in Communications
- NAATA
- National Asian American Telecommunications Association
- ITVS
- Independent Lens
- PBS
- Public Television
- Stanford University
- East
- West
- Hawaii
- Japan
- national sport
- Olympics
- Roger Heffernan
- Sundance Film Festival
- Los Angeles
- Atlantic City
- Sports
- Culture
- professional sumo
- amateur sumo
- Sumo Kyokai
- Dohyo