Looking at Japanese film and television works, it seems that you can always see the inspirational stories of young girls in the school period who have achieved their enthusiastic youth by mistake.
Among them, the "fivesome" is particularly popular, which can not only add roles with different personality traits, but also emphasize the bondage between partners, such as "Five Bald Teenagers", "Five Splashing Teenagers", "Five Violent Teenagers"...
▲ "Five Bald Teenagers" tells the story of Yohei Shiono, a rock youth who is about to graduate from college, as the heir of the temple, and is forced to enter the temple with his friends to practice for a year
▲ "Five Splashing Teenagers" Douban score of 8.4
Maybe you will say, the same student period, why their lives are so colorful, blood and tears!
What kind of temple practice, swimming training, campus band are all available, in addition, they can also practice shooting in the basketball hall, run together in the sunset... The juvenile stories in Japanese film and television works seem to satisfy all people's reverie about youth.
The reason why they have such a rich choice of campus life is also due to the school's departmental system.
▲Ministry activities, abbreviated as Ministry Activities (Japanese: 部戶/ぶかつ), are group activities of Japanese schools after school and are widely used at all stages of education from elementary school to university, and are mainly conducted by faculty members to guide students who have common interests in sports, culture, and learning. For example, the National Higher School Baseball Championship is held every year at Koshien Stadium
Japanese students have an average of more than an hour of work time per day, which allows them to cultivate their interest in learning and practice the goal of all-round development of both culture and martial arts. The rich work also provides soil materials for the creation of film, television and animation.
Today's campus comedy movie also adheres to the "law of five", and the work chosen by these five teenagers has nothing to do with the usual cool and stylish talents, but is a little funny and a little embarrassing...
They're just —"Five Sumo Boys."
▲ "Five Sumo Boys" Phoenix Satellite TV Movie Station october 5, 21:15 / October 6, 17:50 aired
Movie overview
At the University of Teaching, sociology student Akihira Yamamoto (Masahiro Motoki) faces a nobido due to credit problems, and he intercedes with Professor Akayama (Akira Akira Shomoto), the dissertation supervisor, but the iron-faced and selfless Professor Akayama says that he is too absent from class to give credits unless he is willing to join the university sumo wrestling department where he is a consultant.
▲ The ministry without the school staff will face the fate of abolition, and Akihira must help the sumo wrestling department recruit new students
QiuPing had no choice but to obediently get on the thief's boat. However, there is only one thin wannian president Aoki (Naoto Takeaka) in the sumo department who has been repeating grades for many years, and only two people in the club can escape the crisis of the ministry, so Akihira also begins to help Aoki recruit members on campus.
▲Recruiting talents in the 21st century is the most important! Every year in Japan, when new clubs recruit new people, they set up stalls to show off their true selves and recruit talents. The picture shows the Japanese University Department's live recruitment propaganda wall
▲Look at the recruitment of our protagonist who is simple but unique and directly focused
Thanks to the efforts of the two, the sumo wrestling department finally gathered five people, and the three who joined the group in succession had different situations:
Tanaka, a fat man who walks with the same hands and feet, is a devout Christian; Hario, a skinny brother who wants to increase his manhood because of his mother," and Smiley, a British student who has a psychological disorder with sumo crotch pants and must wear a crotch cloth.
These five members of different colors simply typed the two big words "layman" on the public screen.
▲ Five sumo wrestler teenagers
They lost one after another in the game, which caused everyone to laugh and insult.
Unable to stand the ridicule, they began to train seriously, hoping to get good results in the next competition. But in the face of the bottleneck defects in their own lives, can they face them honestly and bravely?
The best sumo movie
Back to the rich and diverse activities of Japanese campuses, between the dazzling cool sports and pleasing art and cultural clubs, sumo wrestling between bare-chested, wearing only crotch cloth on the whole body, and colliding with another person who only wears a crotch cloth in full view of everyone is certainly not the interest choice of handsome men and women in the middle of youth.
As Misha Shimizu, who plays the manager of the sumo wrestling department in the film, said, the current college boys only think about how to attract girls, sumo wrestling, a manly sport that needs to be fattened, they will not come, and no one will inherit this tradition.
▲ The project manager and guidance professor in the film, Cave Mountain
However, this kind of movement, which most young people cannot appreciate and do not want to touch, is Japan's "national skill".
If you also scoff at this sport that lacks aesthetics, this movie may be the best work to introduce you to the charm of sumo.
Director Zhou Fang Masayuki taught five teenagers with different personalities to practice sumo through Professor Cave Mountain, and introduced the culture, rules and connotations of sumo with a relaxed and humorous dialogue plot, so that the five teenagers never had interest in sumo and did not understand the meaning of sumo, and also let the audience who did not understand sumo, Xiao Bai, who did not know sumo, further understand the sport.
▲If you don't know sumo wrestling, you can enjoy watching it
It can be said that "Five Sumo Teenagers" is not only a bloody inspirational film, but also has the function of knowledge literacy.
For example, did you know that sumo has a strict hierarchy?
So-chen-10-10,Low-pitched high-pitched kore: The beginning of the beginning, the first two steps Three steps, Makushita,10 ryo(juryo), maegashira, komusubi, sekiwaki, ozeki, yokozuna.
Yokozuna is the highest title of Lux, and in a sense can be regarded as a lifetime honorary title.
▲ In the movie, When Professor Cave Mountain was a student, he was a yokozuna of the sumo wrestling department
Did you know that the only costume a sumo wrestler wears, the crotch cloth, is not actually its official name?
▲The original name of the crotch cloth was Mawashi, and only Aoki can correctly call out this name among the sumo wrestlers in the movie
Mawashi wasn't actually panties or thongs, but a thick, heavy piece of cloth wrapped around it. It is usually up to 9 meters long and weighs up to 5 kg!
▲ To wrap such a "crotch cloth" depends on a special way of knotting. In the movie, Qiu Ping is also convenient for popular science to wear Mawashi
Did you know that Mawashi, a professional sumo wrestler, never washes it? Until they die.
▲In the movie, Qiuping was popularized because he habitually washed the stained crotch cloth
This is a taste of cold knowledge, after learning about this, Xiaobian seems to be able to witness the growth path of sumo wrestlers from their crotch cloth...
▲ Sumo wrestlers never wash their equipment, it is said that they believe that good luck will be attached to Mawashi along with hormones, and to clean it is to wash away past achievements, like throwing away the medal of victory with their own hands. Not washing Mawashi has become a tradition and a symbol
The more veteran the player, the more flavorful it is, which is a taste of status...
▲ Sunlight is the best detergent for Mawashi
Can you believe it? Sumo wrestlers never clean mawashi not only to save luck in the area of the faith layer, but also to protect solid combat attributes at the scientific level!
Don't look at Mawashi as simple as it looks, as the only protective body of a sumo wrestler, tightness is its ultimate attribute.
Mawashi relies on hand weaving layer by layer, the soaking of water will make the fibers shrink, the material density is reduced, it becomes weak, and its weavers have not considered the problem of cleaning in the early stages of spinning!
▲However, with the advancement of the times, some professional cleaning companies also provide professional Mawashi cleaning methods to clean the odor for players with less strong faith
Do you know the 6 basic moves of sumo? They are sprinkled with salt, dusty hands, four strands, crouching, shiche, and hand knives.
QiuPing didn't know anything about sumo wrestling at first, but he had a winning spirit, and he couldn't lose momentum if he lost! So he learned the tv master to play a handsome exorcism before the game, and once sprinkled on the referee... After losing, he was unexpectedly ridiculed.
In fact, the contestants sprinkle salt (siomaki) on the sumo wrestling stage to drive away evil spirits, and pray to the gods to protect them from injury. After taking the stage, the contestants will make a chirityozu (dusty) movement, crouching on the side of the ring, stretching horizontally to both sides after hitting with both hands, and turning their palms upwards.
▲ The reason for this action comes from the fact that sumo wrestling was held in the open air in the past, and Lux cleaned his hands with grass, flipped his hands upwards and showed them to his opponents, indicating that he was not carrying a weapon
After making four sikokus in turn with both feet, he bent down directly, put his elbows on his knees and raised his chin slightly, and his eyes focused on his opponents for mental concentration, which is sikiri, which also means that the players are in a mental state that can be fought at any time.
▲ Screenshot of the film
Did you know that sumo is actually a dangerous competitive sport? And it's not just two people jokingly hugging and falling.
▲ In the movie, the thinnest Haruo was accidentally injured in a sumo wrestling match, resulting in the inability to participate in the tiebreaker from the third stage to the second stage
It is worth mentioning that when Haruo was injured and could not participate in the decider and the sumo wrestling club with only five members was facing a crisis of insufficient numbers, Masako, a fat girl who was playing in the sumo wrestling department because she liked Haruo, volunteered to stand up and hope to represent the sumo club in the competition and avenge Haruo.
The fact that the children dressed as men and went out to compete became an important straw to save the entire sumo wrestling club from coming back to life.
For a feudal country like Japan, coupled with the fact that sumo wrestling competitions prohibit women from going to the sumo stage, the design of this plot can be described as unexpected, and it can also be seen that the director already had enlightened ideas in the 1990s. Masako, who fought the sumo stage for the sake of the team members and victory, is the pride of the sumo club.
The film is full of this kind of sumo trivia, through the chemical collision with the new members of sumo wrestling, the resulting humor makes the atmosphere of the whole film vivid and vivid, and fills the essence of the narrative that is easy to be boring at the right time.
And when the audience finished watching the movie in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, they found that they had unconsciously absorbed so much sumo knowledge.
Japanese Sumo
As Japan's "national skill", sumo wrestling has almost witnessed the development history of Japan.
Its origin can be found in Japanese mythology, and there are records of the "Conjunction Myth" in the "Ancient Chronicles" about the god of thunder and the god of the name of the imperial family.
▲ The Nihon Shoki records that Nomi Sumi and Whenmasumi compete in front of the Emperor
However, these are only myths and legends, and as historical facts, it is recorded that in 642, in the first year of the emperor's reign, in order to entertain the royal emissaries of Baekje, the emperor ordered "athletes" to compete in sumo, which is also considered to be the earliest historical record of sumo wrestling.
Sumo was originally a sacred ritual, a ritual sacrifice, which slowly evolved into the current competition with the development of history.
To this day, sumo continues its sacredness and ritualism
From the late Jomon period to the Yayoi period, when Rice Farming began in Japan, sumo was born as a ritual divination ceremony held every year to pray for a good harvest of crops.
Representatives of the various regions compete with each other for victory and defeat, with the region represented by the winning side having a good harvest this year, while the region represented by the losing side will have a poor harvest.
By the Heian period of Nara, sumo became a court ceremony for the entertainment of the emperor and court ministers, and this ceremony was called the "Sumo Festival". After entering the court, sumo wrestling abandoned some rough behaviors such as punches and kicks, and sublimated it into a form of winning completely with "skill" and "force".
▲At that time, sumo wrestling did not have a toku (circular ring) or a line (referee)
Enter the Kamakura era, that is, the era of the samurai. At that time, sumo wrestling responded to the needs of the times, and it was no longer just for the purpose of making a wish for farming, but also for the purpose of "the physique of a strong samurai".
Samurai also began to hire sumo wrestlers, so many famous sumo wrestlers became samurai and began to fight on the battlefield.
After entering the Edo period, the form of sumo wrestling was basically the same as it is today. As an entertainment activity, sumo began to go to the folk and to the masses.
After that, the form of sumo wrestling has not changed much.
One of the reasons sumo has flourished in Japan is because it is in line with the Japanese aesthetic of simplicity and authenticity.
Unlike the complex rules of other competitive sports, the rules of sumo wrestling are simple, as long as any part of the opponent's body lands or pushes the opponent off the playing field, the other side wins.
What really makes sumo a thriving national sport is that sumo wrestling embodies the japanese concept of strength and weakness in the spiritual world.
Japan's land area is small, in the past, the height of the people was generally low, the size was small, it is precisely because the Japanese nation is surrounded by "small" everywhere, which has contributed to the Japanese people's pursuit and worship of "big" since ancient times.
From the Daehwa Reforms to the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese have been following the path of the powerful. The muscular stature of sumo wrestlers satisfies the Japanese people's fantasies of being powerful, and sumo as a competitive sport encompasses the Japanese dream of pursuing "strong".
However, in the world of sumo wrestling, this size is not absolute. As the French scholar Jean Cocteau has argued, sumo is a miracle of balance.
Jean Cocteau's phrase also appears repeatedly in the film
Sumo wrestling is the sport of the strong, and it is also a contest of four or two thousand pounds of skill. It is not the stronger who wins, but to do everything possible to upset the balance of the opponent.
▲Professor Cave Mountain designed sandbag push training for the members of the sumo wrestling department and fought for various friendly battles to improve their skills, so that the protagonist team that did not have the advantage stood out through the efforts of the day after tomorrow
Therefore, in sumo wrestling matches, it sometimes happens that the small is big and the weak wins the strong. The pursuit of a strong path is not a one-way street, and "small" can also triumph over "big".
▲ Japan's local athletes, 1.83 meters tall and 157 kilograms of Kinohana once defeated Hawaii's 2 meters tall and 200 kilograms of Akebono, a victory that caused a sensation throughout Japan
The true meaning of sumo wrestling is that weak people defeat those who are stronger than themselves through hard work, patience, and skill.
This sumo spirit can help you overcome any difficulties on the road of life.
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"Five Sumo Boys"
October 5 at 9:15 PM
October 6 at 5:50 PM
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