Ika resuraa

Name: Ika resuraa
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2004-07-30
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Nômaru Abe, 'Hurricane Ryu' Hariken, Kana Ishida

2004
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

787

YOUR RATING

Comedy

A championship wrestling match pits Koji Taguchi against Crush Volcano, the latter no match to Koji's signature move, the Torture Ring Strangler. Koji beams as he clutches the champion belt,... Read allA championship wrestling match pits Koji Taguchi against Crush Volcano, the latter no match to Koji's signature move, the Torture Ring Strangler. Koji beams as he clutches the champion belt, only to have it snatched away by a mysterious new challenger in the ring - a giant squid,... Read allA championship wrestling match pits Koji Taguchi against Crush Volcano, the latter no match to Koji's signature move, the Torture Ring Strangler. Koji beams as he clutches the champion belt, only to have it snatched away by a mysterious new challenger in the ring - a giant squid, in fact, who not only evades Koji's key attack, but destroys him with a Northern Light Su... Read all

Director
- Minoru Kawasaki
Writers
- Minoru Kawasaki
- Masakazu Migita
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

787

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Quotes
Ring Announcer: Ladies and gentleman, we are not underwater! This is really happening!

Connections
Referenced in Koara kachô (2005)

User reviews13

Review

Featured review

7/10

"Baseketball" meets "Tampopo" and asks "Shall We Dance?"

I never thought that a film set in the professional wrestling arena could be so entertaining on so many comic levels. From slapstick to irony, the artful deadpan acting and the multi-faceted script filled my livingroom with laughter.

Every time the reliance on the costumes began to irritate my sensibilities the intentional ambiguities and incongruities of the characterizations fractured my funny-bone.

Love is a many-tentacled thing for the lovely girlfriend who can't make up her mind and the comedy comes at the viewer from all directions: Love and loyalty, character and competition,fathers and sons, winners and losers, biology, gastronomy and sport-tainment are all satirized.

I think that this film should appeal to fans of wrestling, "The Iron Chef", "Finding Nemo", "Rocky", sci-fi and anyone who appreciates that humor knows no international boundaries.

The film is suitable for all audiences. Anyone who gets a fraction of the gags will be entertained. It would be a great Saturday night comedy for the whole family. An English language dub would eliminate the only barrier to the film's mass-appeal.

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