Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire (2004)
Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United States and discovers professional wrestling, he becomes a hero back home.
- Released
- 2004-12-15
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Song Hae-sung
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 from 12 votes
Cast
- Sul Kyung-gu as Rikidozan
- Miki Nakatani as Aya
- Tatsuya Fuji as Takeo Kanno
- Masato Hagiwara as Yuzuru Yoshimachi
- Masakatsu Funaki as Imura Mashahiko
- Shinya Hashimoto as Higashinami
- Keiji Mutō as Harold Sakata
- Mike Polchlopek as Ben Sharpe
- James Rocha as 'Iron' Mike Sharpe
- Jun Akiyama as Kokichi Endo
- Rob Rechsteiner as Wrestler
- Denden as Showman