Sumo and the Olympics

[Morning]

4 hours ago, Eikokurai said:

Then there’s Japanese films. What Westerner hasn’t heard of Battle Royale, The Ring, Audition, etc? Japanese horror has made its mark on world cinema. 

Not being into horror movies I have only heard of the Ring. I have however seen Thermae Times II which has Albino and Kotoshu and more.

[Eikokurai]

11 minutes ago, Morning said:

Not being into horror movies I have only heard of the Ring. I have however seen Thermae Times II which has Albino and Kotoshu and more.

Battle Royale is the one like the Hunger Games where a bunch of school kids on an island have to kill each other and survive a game. It crossed over into the mainstream when it was released in 2000 and has had a major cultural influence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(film)

[Kaminariyuki]

On 17/08/2021 at 19:08, Yamanashi said:

Remember how cool it was when the France TV pre-Olympics commercial featured the animated Sumo wrestler?  That was the high-water mark of Sumo at the Tokyo Olympics.

Ran across another French mention of this commercial for the Olympics. Doesn't add too much info in the paragraph but does credit the illustrations to Stéphane Levallois and directed by Geoffroy Barbet-Massin (Mikros MPC).

http://www.packshotmag.com/films/france-tv-sport-le-japon-est-pret-pour-les-jeux-olympiques-france-tv-aussi/

Also, there's a slightly longer clip of the full commercial, with an intro in a tatami mat room and surfing the big wave...

 

Edited August 20, 2021 by Kaminariyuki

[sumojoann]

I LOVE this French Olympics commercial!  However, when I tried to "save" it to a Playlist on my Youtube channel, I wasn't able to.  I got this message instead ----------- !!

Watching "made for kids" content

To comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and other laws, certain features may be restricted or turned off on content that’s set as made for kids.

 

[Gurowake]

I'm from Detroit and followed baseball back then in my youth.  I do not recall it ever being mentioned that Cecil Fielder used to play for a Japanese team.  If it was, it wasn't mentioned very much, to the point that I have no memory of it.

[code_number3]

Any chance for sumo in Paralympics?

[Yamanashi]

16 hours ago, Gurowake said:

I'm from Detroit and followed baseball back then in my youth.  I do not recall it ever being mentioned that Cecil Fielder used to play for a Japanese team.  If it was, it wasn't mentioned very much, to the point that I have no memory of it.

I think Fred McGriff was in the way at Toronto where he was playing before the Hanshin Tigers (prophetic, right?) picked him up.  He was a monster that next season, and MLB took notice.

[sumojoann]

1 hour ago, code_number3 said:

Any chance for sumo in Paralympics?

I only know of one sumo wrestler who would qualify because of what some people might call a "disability", and that is Yoshiki Fuse.  However, he is now 47 so is a little past his prime.  He used to be active in the 90s in amateur sumo.  He lost part of one arm in a farm equipment accident when he was in the second grade.  He now teaches sumo to high school students.  Terunofuji credits him with inspiring him to keep going when he felt like giving up.  Here is an interesting article about him.  https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14362038

Edited August 21, 2021 by sumojoann

[Tsuchinoninjin]

18 hours ago, Gurowake said:

I'm from Detroit and followed baseball back then in my youth.  I do not recall it ever being mentioned that Cecil Fielder used to play for a Japanese team.  If it was, it wasn't mentioned very much, to the point that I have no memory of it.

I remember it being a big thing and I checked the papers:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-09-30-9003220616-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-05-sp-615-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/05/magazine/the-slugger-nobody-wanted.html

https://www.mitchalbom.com/in-japan-fielder-lived-american-dream/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43763027/sun-9290-lajoie-reflecting-on-the/

They'd show clips of him there during games.

[Gurowake]

Well, I was only 8 years old.  I don't remember much from then regardless, other than Fielder being a big name and me liking to read over all the baseball stats in the newspaper.  The only memory I have specifically related to Fielder was being on vacation in Washington DC I think around then and hearing someone else talk about him.  Why that stuck with me, I don't know.  Memory is a strange thing.

Edited August 21, 2021 by Gurowake

[Yamanashi]

5 hours ago, Tsuchinoninjin said:

I remember it being a big thing and I checked the papers:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-09-30-9003220616-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-05-sp-615-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/05/magazine/the-slugger-nobody-wanted.html

https://www.mitchalbom.com/in-japan-fielder-lived-american-dream/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43763027/sun-9290-lajoie-reflecting-on-the/

They'd show clips of him there during games.

@Gurowake, what kind of a hick doesn't grow up reading the Trib, the LA Times, and the NYT??

[Mightyduck]

On 20/08/2021 at 05:45, Eikokurai said:

Battle Royale is the one like the Hunger Games where a bunch of school kids on an island have to kill each other and survive a game. It crossed over into the mainstream when it was released in 2000 and has had a major cultural influence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(film)

As an aside the English translation of the original novel is great, and makes more sense than the film.

 

[Seiyashi]

1 minute ago, Mightyduck said:

As an aside the English translation of the original novel is great, and makes more sense than the film.

 

Makes much more compelling reading than Hunger Games, for sure.

[nelimw]

On 20/08/2021 at 17:35, Kaminariyuki said:

Ran across another French mention of this commercial for the Olympics. Doesn't add too much info in the paragraph but does credit the illustrations to Stéphane Levallois and directed by Geoffroy Barbet-Massin (Mikros MPC).

http://www.packshotmag.com/films/france-tv-sport-le-japon-est-pret-pour-les-jeux-olympiques-france-tv-aussi/

Also, there's a slightly longer clip of the full commercial, with an intro in a tatami mat room and surfing the big wave...

 

YES! The whole clip is AMAZING. Thanks for sharing that!

[code_number3]

Finally, no sumo at all in this Olympic and Paralympic

At least we finally had Miraitowa and Someity on paralympic closing ceremony