Thrilling, and only 3 hours long! Could have reveled in the images of this film for hours more. Pretty convinced that the film purposely shows the anarchists as buffoonish amateurs so that they might step up and rise to a level of accomplishments of the women sumos. They may have failed in their dream, but Tetsu and Dai had heart and courage, and were inspired to find strength after witnessing the outsider life of the sumo wrestlers. Many reviews I've…

I read an interview with the director, Jeon Go-woon, and she described this film as a satire. I'm not sure I found it funny per se, though their are moments of levity and cringe. Instead, I found it rather heartbreaking. I definitely empathized with Miso and the former bandmates she visits, the things they give up to live the lives they think they want, or rather think they should live. They sacrificed so much for a certain kind of living,…

Honestly unsure how popular hockey really is in the states, especially minor league hockey. Growing up in rural Canada, you can't escape the sport. And though I couldn't care less about Canada's national past-time (or really any sport) now, as a kid, I wanted to be the next Wayne Gretzky. But hockey is an expensive sport to play year after year ($750 on the low end just for skates and ice time), especially when you have multiple kids in the…