SUMO EAST AND WEST
This 85 minute version is for personal home use only.  FOR NON-PROFIT AND INSTITUTIONAL USE (also available in 53 minute version) please visit: www.customflix.com/205858 or www.customflix.com/205859Theatrical Version - Includes 32 additional minutes not seen on TV*Featuring Akebono, Konishiki, Jesse Kuhaulua, Wayne Vierra and Emmanuel YarbroughIn Japan, sumo wrestling is not only the national sport but a centuries-old cultural treasure. Yet over the past few decades the highly traditional world of sumo has been rocked by the arrival of bigger, heavier American wrestlers from Hawaii who have become among the most successful and popular wrestlers in the sport. "Sumo East and West" takes us into this world through the story of Wayne Vierra of Hawaii, whose promising professional sumo career in Japan was cut short by injury, but who rebounded to become a champion in the burgeoning world of amateur sumo in the West, where its advocates are staging amateur sumo tournaments in venues like Las Vegas casinos - events that bear little resemblance to the sport's Japanese forebear. Can a 2000-year-old sport survive in the 21st century in its traditional form? What happens when East and West collide?SUMO EAST AND WEST had its World Premiere at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and its National Broadcast on PBS's Independent Lens series, 2004.Produced, Directed, Photographed, and Edited by Ferne Pearlstein (winner of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Cinematography Award for IMELDA) and Produced, Edited and Written by Robert Edwards.To learn more about Sumo East and West, please visit: www.sumoeastandwest.com*Please note that the Theatrical Version was shown on PBS in some markets including Hawaii, American Samoa, and Guam.INDIVIDUAL USE: RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS:This purchase is for individual home use only, and does not include any public-performance rights of either a paying or non-paying nature.SUMO EAST AND WEST is protected by United States copyright law. Duplication, reproduction, alteration, television broadcast or cablecast, internet webcasting/filesharing, loaning for a fee, leasing, sublicensing to others or use for public exhibition or commercial purposes (i.e. charging admission) is strictly prohibited without written permission from SumoFilms, Inc.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.