KGFC Festival Talks Podcast sits down with the cast and crew of Sushi Tushi

Listen to host Craig Horsley speak with the cast and crew of the feature film Sushi Tushi or How Asia Butted into American Pro Football with director Ziad Hamzeh, producer Bob Altman, editor Sam Adelman and stars Eddie Mekka and Claire Kennedy.

Synopsis:

What do you when you’re a pro football franchise, The Portland Lobsters and have lost 32 games in a row? Hard to believe since you’ve got Caleb O’Rourke, the finest QB in the league, an all American Football trophy winner from Princeton. So why the problem? The line defending O’Rourke consists of the most inept, bungling idiots ever to play football. In desperation, maybe you buy a school of Sumo Wrestlers, with all of their gargantuan Sumos, and turn them into linemen protecting your precious O’Rourke. Easier said than done, since Yama, the greatest of the sumo wrestlers demands that his girlfriends Fumiko and Yoko, members of the Japanese Purple Lotus Blossom Society of Lady Sumo Wrestlers, accompany him to Maine to be incorporated into the Lobsters’ lovely, graceful cheer-leading squad, The Lobsterettes. And what do you do on the very last play of the Big Game, when all seems lost and you’re losing by a point? Maybe, if you’re a sumo lineman, you strip off your stupid pro football uniform, take stock of your sumo heritage, and clad only in your loincloth, go for the win- the sumo way.