Fri, Jul 16
|Virtual Theater
The Witches Of The Orient
The stranger-than-fiction story of how a group of Osaka textile workers in the late 1950's are transformed into a fiercely competitive women’s volleyball team becoming an international sensation, feminist role models, and the subject of a wildly popular comic book and a still-influential anime.
Time & Location
Jul 16, 2021, 12:00 AM – Jul 31, 2021, 11:59 PM
Virtual Theater
About the event
Witches Of The Orient (2021). Virtual Tickets are $12.
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How does a Japanese women’s volleyball team from the late 1950s become an international sensation, feminist role models, the subject of a wildly popular comic book and a still-influential anime? This stranger-than-fiction story is dynamically told by Julien Faraut (JOHN McENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION), with an ironic twist on the original demeaning moniker, Oriental Witches. A group of Osaka textile workers are transformed into a fiercely competitive volleyball team by their astonishingly ruthless coach whose unconventional techniques emphasize speed and aggression. A record-setting winning streak and a dramatic 1964 Tokyo Olympics triumph follow. Wonderful archival footage of the women in training and on the court, animated versions of their championship games, and moving interviews with the women today are set to a pulsating electronic score.
“Exciting... a highly unusual sports documentary...pits the fantasy of sports movies against the reality of hard practice… A seamless montage of live action and animation directly demonstrates how art reimagines reality.”
– Dan Schindel, Hyperallergic