• Director(s):

    PERRIER (David), LEMAIRE (OLIVIER), PERRIER (David)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, BONNE PIOCHE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2015

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Sumo wrestlers have a proverb: “Wounds sustained on the dohyô (the ring) are cured on the dohyô”. 

Sumo is a sport of self-sacrifice in which, from the very youngest age, wrestlers learn to be master of their own bodies, and to put up with pain. Medicine occupies a highly ambivalent position in their world, and few practitioners manage to earn the wrestlers’ trust. Bernard is given special permission to penetrate daily life in a “heya” (a sumo training stable), where he meets Inui Tomoyuki, a man who has followed an atypical path, and has in-depth knowledge of their environment. He uses his knowledge of Chinese medicine and osteopathy to treat Sumos in a unique way.