In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine is a 2018 film directed by Takahisa Zeze about women's sumo wrestling and anarchism after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. The film was produced by Kazunao Sakaguchi.
