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1) Gaea Girls
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
This fascinating film follows the physically grueling and mentally exhausting training regimen of several young wanna-be GAEA GIRLS, a group of Japanese women wrestlers. The idea of them may seem like a total oxymoron in a country where women are usually regarded as docile and subservient. However, in training and in the arena, the female wrestlers depicted in this film are just as violent as any member of the World Wrestling Federation, and the blood...
2) Point zero
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A triumph by Seicho Matsumoto, the master of Japanese mystery writing. A beautifully written crime novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation. First published in Japanese in 1959, the novel abandoned the template of closed-room mysteries so popular in pre-war Japan to embrace social criticism. In a radical departure from tradition, the novel has a female protagonist, a housewife...
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