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.
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Mai Kiryu Hanae Kan Masahiro Higashide Kanichiro Sato Yôko Kamon Maki Maehara Ai Nishina Yuki Tashiro Kanako Mochida Miho Harita Maho Yamada Ayaka Onishi Misa Wada Jun Seno Kaho Harada Gôichi Mine Kiyohiko Shibukawa Ryo Ikeda Tomokoi Kimura Kaoru Iida Ryuju Kobayashi Taiga Komizu Kuu Izima Ryunosuke Azuma Toshimitsu Kokido Takashi Yamanaka Arata Iura Shima Onishi Sankichi Kawamoto Haruki Takano Kyūsaku Shimada Kensaku Watanabe Shohei Uno Takuji Suzuki Tatsushi Ōmori Atsushi Shinohara Shun Sugata Yohta Kawase Zenki Aramaki Masatoshi Nagase
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