Les Sorcières de l’Orient (2021)
Genre: Documentary / Sport
Duration: 100 minuten
Alternative title: The Witches of the Orient
Country:
France
Directed by: Julien Faraut
Starst: Kinuko Tanida, Yoko Shinozaki and Katsumi Matsumura
IMDb score:
6,8 (302)
Releasedate: 16 July 2021
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Les Sorcières de l’Orient plot
They were dubbed "Witches of the East," the Japanese volleyball players who won gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. They started as a volleyball team at a textile factory, after which victory followed victory. The team was so popular that it spawned a boom of mangas, cartoons, and anime. Julien Faraut's documentary interweaves manga and anime with archive footage of blood-curdling matches and extremely rigorous training sessions, propelled by a rhythmic montage and music by the French musician K-Raw. When the women, now in their seventies, come together again after many years, they are playfully introduced as heroines in a sixties spy film.
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