Sumo documentary videos

[Toonoryu 1]

I'm trying to find the maximum of video documentaries on sumo, so i was wondering if anyone out there happens to have the following : National Geographic "Inside Sumo" (not "Inside : Sumo Kids" which i have), "Yokozuna : Life at the top" from NHK, and "Mongolian Eagle" (english version). Any help would be much appreciated.

I myself have the japanese version of a very nice film, "A normal Life", filmed in Oshima-beya. Will be happy to share once i find a way to upload the file (700 Mo).

Edited April 21, 2010 by Toonoryu

[Takamizawa 0]

I'll add a bump for "Mongolian Eagle;" I've been wanting to watch it forever, but all the versions online are blocked in my region.

[Kaji 1]

I'm trying to find the maximum of video documentaries on sumo, so i was wondering if anyone out there happens to have the following : National Geographic "Inside Sumo" (not "Inside : Sumo Kids" which i have), "Yokozuna : Life at the top" from NHK, and "Mongolian Eagle" (english version). Any help would be much appreciated.

I myself have the japanese version of a very nice film, "A normal Life", filmed in Oshima-beya. Will be happy to share once i find a way to upload the file (700 Mo).

Hi

in bygone days you could find "Mongolian Eagle" (english version) online, but I think it is no longer possible (and even then, watchable just in some areas).

I don't know if you are interested on that, but you can find "Sumo Science", a NHK Beyond the Naked Eye documentary, in Youtube.

[Toonoryu 1]

I'm trying to find the maximum of video documentaries on sumo, so i was wondering if anyone out there happens to have the following : National Geographic "Inside Sumo" (not "Inside : Sumo Kids" which i have), "Yokozuna : Life at the top" from NHK, and "Mongolian Eagle" (english version). Any help would be much appreciated.

I myself have the japanese version of a very nice film, "A normal Life", filmed in Oshima-beya. Will be happy to share once i find a way to upload the file (700 Mo).

Hi

in bygone days you could find "Mongolian Eagle" (english version) online, but I think it is no longer possible (and even then, watchable just in some areas).

I don't know if you are interested on that, but you can find "Sumo Science", a NHK Beyond the Naked Eye documentary, in Youtube.

Have it already. Very interesting.

Hope that someone downloaded Mongolian Eagle when it was available on joost, should have done it myself, how fool I am...

[GoForkYourself 0]

yeah, i watched mongolian eagle a long time ago and went back to see it again recently and wasn't able to. hopefully someone somewhere has a copy.

i have the national geographic show though, and i can upload it for you.

edit: found a link quickly: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3D0NN8YO

Edited April 24, 2010 by GoForkYourself

[Torabayama 51]

I enjoyed this documentary, it has a lot of similarities to "Sumo: East and West" which is out there on DVD. Haven't seen Yokozuna: Life at the Top yet however.

[Toonoryu 1]

yeah, i watched mongolian eagle a long time ago and went back to see it again recently and wasn't able to. hopefully someone somewhere has a copy.

i have the national geographic show though, and i can upload it for you.

edit: found a link quickly: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3D0NN8YO

Than for that ! ;-)

Any other documentary available, i'm ready to take them (or films such as East and West or Rikidozan)

[Otokonoyama 2,735]

A bit dated, but not sure if it was posted before.

[kaishaku83 0]

There is a pretty nice doc (although it's way more dated than the one above ^_^) on factualtv.com:

"Sumo Story"

Unfortunately only works on the damned Internet Explorer, though it's free to watch.....

Edited June 17, 2010 by kaishaku83

[Torabayama 51]

I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Thanks for sharing.

There is a pretty nice doc (although it's way more dated than the one above ^_^) on factualtv.com:

"Sumo Story"

Unfortunately only works on the damned Internet Explorer, though it's free to watch.....

[kaishaku83 0]

You're verry welcome. I haven't seen "Yokozuna : Life at the top" yet either. Is there no streaming version out there?

[Orion 431]

There is a pretty nice doc (although it's way more dated than the one above ^_^) on factualtv.com:

"Sumo Story"

Unfortunately only works on the damned Internet Explorer, though it's free to watch.....

Very good -- I had no idea of the existence of this one. Access to top people and real stuff all the time. Mark Schilling does a great job of explaining. Unfortunately I didn't have 47 minutes to spare yesterday (I watched 10-15 minutes and couldn't find a fast forward) so never got to the credits to find out who made it and who the excellent narrator was. It can be dated accurately, however, since the Inosuke featured was Inosuke XXX who only had two basho at that rank -- September and November 2000, if my calculations are correct.

Orion

Edited June 19, 2010 by Orion

[Kaji 1]

There is a pretty nice doc (although it's way more dated than the one above ^_^) on factualtv.com:

"Sumo Story"

Unfortunately only works on the damned Internet Explorer, though it's free to watch.....

Thanks for this documentary (I am not worthy...) (Sign of approval...)

[kaishaku83 0]

Again, my pleasure! I too enjoy that doc alot ^^

So I guess that means, there is no way for me to watch that "Life at the Top" thing?!

[Umigame 82]

NHK just showed a really well-made TV special on Hakuho's quest to beat Futabayama's record. It included footage of Hakuho working with hi-tech sports scientists and with a psychological counselor-type sports trainer. Hopefully it will become available somewhere to watch again.

Title of the program is 横綱 白鵬

[Toonoryu 1]

To those who would happen to be interested, here's a documentary bu a French girl who spent half a year in Oshima-beya and focused on the life of a young rikishi, namely Kyokutaisei. This is the Japanese version, think it is dubbed in Chinese ( (Showing respect...) ) but the images often speak by themselves.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MQABN9HF

[kotoeikoku 0]

Thanks so much for the upload, this is a beautiful documentary.

To those who would happen to be interested, here's a documentary bu a French girl who spent half a year in Oshima-beya and focused on the life of a young rikishi, namely Kyokutaisei. This is the Japanese version, think it is dubbed in Chinese ( (Showing respect...) ) but the images often speak by themselves.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MQABN9HF

[madorosumaru 7]

. . . here's a documentary bu a French girl who spent half a year in Oshima-beya and focused on the life of a young rikishi, namely Kyokutaisei. This is the Japanese version, think it is dubbed in Chinese . . .

An excellent documentary--subtitled in Chinese--about a shin-deshi named Kyokutaisei. Takuya Ogushi is from Asahikawa in Hokkaido. His story is told as he chats with various people in his life. In high school, he was involved in judo but his father always wanted him to join sumo. There is a very tender scene where he sits and talks with his dad for the last time. Dad: "It's going to be really tough. You know you can always come home." Takuya: "I am going to be ok." Dad: "You know about that incident [at another heya]." Takuya: "Yeah. But that's an isolated case. He didn't have the ability and didn't fit. That won't happen to me. I will never run away. Not me."

Oyakata goes to Hokkaido to fetch the shin-deshi. Together, they make the rounds of town and school officials. Officials: "Hokkaido has had a tradition of developing famous rikishi but there is not a single sekitori currently. We have high hopes for you."

Local supporters treat oyakata and deshi to an encouragement dinner after which the two fly to Tokyo. Ani-deshi are kind and considerate (at least on film) to the boy. They take him out to dinner and explain his new lifestyle. Ani-deshi: "You will get lonely but you'll have a chance to go home once a year." At the heya, they tell him little tidbits: "We go to bed early but some of us wake up in the middle of the night and go grab something to eat in the kitchen . . ."

Takuya had no sumo experience whatsoever before he joined. At the shin-deshi physical, he is asked who his favorite rikishi is and he can't answer. The questioner had to prompt him by suggesting, "How about Tenho-zeki?"

In mae-zumo, he is pitted against Fukao, a huge collegian with international tournament experience. Takuya: "I had no idea what to do so I waited to see what he would do. By the time I reacted, I was out of the ring." He had to face two other top-notch collegians--Yamashita of Nihon U. and Homarefuji of Kinki U. Needless to say, he lost. He did however defeat some doofus named Ono twice.

At the senshuraku party, Takuya hobnobs with the fans for the first time. You can see him counting the bills that he received. If a brand new nobody gets "gifts," you can imagine the "harvest" of a sekitori.

Although the young man had no sumo experience, he was active in judo for 11 years. As a result, he has athletic ability and a well-developed lower body. He is in sandanme currently but he did reach makushita for Aki Basho. A little over 2 1/2 years since joining--not bad at all.

[Vikanohara 171]

I did see this documentary on Belgian television yesterday. I was pretty amazed it reached Belgian broadcast. Watching the docu I felt like this young guy wasn't going to persist very long. Especially as after 8 months he still talked about having made the wrong choice. Even though he already had a 6-1 basho under his belt. He also didn't seem to feel much for the life of a sumo wrestler, and didn't care much about how he performed. So when I tracked him down on sumo database, I actually expected not to find him around anymore. But to my surprise, he has already reached Makushita. He went down since, but he might reach Makushita again and who knows even become a sekitori some day ? Very unexpected, after watching this documentary, I must say.

[Doitsuyama 1,173]

Although the young man had no sumo experience, he was active in judo for 11 years. As a result, he has athletic ability and a well-developed lower body. He is in sandanme currently but he did reach makushita for Aki Basho. A little over 2 1/2 years since joining--not bad at all.

He certainly still has a penchant for non-typical kimarite. 9 ketaguri, 8 chongake, 5 nichonage, 5 susoharai in 66 wins, but only 2 yorikiri and 2 oshidashi. He is doing some throws, but it's typical judo here too with 7 sukuinage and only 2 uwatenage.

Either he will make his name as a judo kimarite wizard or he will slowly adapt to more classical sumo...

[Fay 1,677]

Although the young man had no sumo experience, he was active in judo for 11 years. As a result, he has athletic ability and a well-developed lower body. He is in sandanme currently but he did reach makushita for Aki Basho. A little over 2 1/2 years since joining--not bad at all.

He certainly still has a penchant for non-typical kimarite. 9 ketaguri, 8 chongake, 5 nichonage, 5 susoharai in 66 wins, but only 2 yorikiri and 2 oshidashi. He is doing some throws, but it's typical judo here too with 7 sukuinage and only 2 uwatenage.

Either he will make his name as a judo kimarite wizard or he will slowly adapt to more classical sumo...

And what he showed this basho were one henka after another. I really saw him doing better in other basho.

[Torabayama 51]

To those who would happen to be interested, here's a documentary bu a French girl who spent half a year in Oshima-beya and focused on the life of a young rikishi, namely Kyokutaisei. This is the Japanese version, think it is dubbed in Chinese ( :-) ) but the images often speak by themselves.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MQABN9HF

Wow, thanks a lot for this. Really looking forward to seeing it.

[ktkraft 0]

Hi guys, just came accross this youtube channel, it has recently uploaded docs on Sumo including

'Yaocho (cheating) in Sumo'

'Sumo Science'

'Sumo Winning Ways'

http://www.youtube.com/user/domokun2u

[Babaryutaikai 1]

Hi guys, just came accross this youtube channel, it has recently uploaded docs on Sumo including

'Yaocho (cheating) in Sumo'

'Sumo Science'

'Sumo Winning Ways'

http://www.youtube.com/user/domokun2u

The Winning Ways video is really great for those who are also curious about the various kimarite. There is historical and technical commentary by sumo historians, oyakata and sumo buff/talento Daemon - and the 5 parts comprise a really good reference compendium, narrated by Hiro Morita..

[alpineviolet 0]

The Winning Ways video is really great for those who are also curious about the various kimarite. There is historical and technical commentary by sumo historians, oyakata and sumo buff/talento Daemon - and the 5 parts comprise a really good reference compendium, narrated by Hiro Morita..

Sounds like required watching for me then! I'm still only familiar with a few kimarite. Thanks for the details. :)