Gaea Girls
2024
Computer Files, Websites
This fascinating film follows the physically grueling and mentally exhausting training regimen of several young wanna-be GAEA GIRLS, a group of Japanese women wrestlers. The idea of them may seem like a total oxymoron in a country where women are usually regarded as docile and subservient. However, in training and in the arena, the female wrestlers depicted in this film are just as violent as any member of the World Wrestling Federation, and the blood that’s drawn is very real indeed. One recruit, Takeuchi, endures ritual humiliation not seen on screen since the boot camp sequences of Full Metal Jacket.
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Author:
Williams, Jano, film directorLonginotto, Kim, film directorWomen Make Movies (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Work:
Imprint:
Women Make Movies, 2000.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (62 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2000.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
482194
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/13820227/external-image - Cover Image