New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced today that the much anticipated documentary about the legendary Antonio Inoki is scheduled to be released on October 6th, 2023.
The movie will initially be released at the TOHO Cinemas Hibiya as well as other roadshows nationwide in Japan on Friday, October 6. GAGA Corporation will be distributing the film to the worldwide market.
NJPW Chairman Naoki Sugabayashi issued this statement about the upcoming release of the film:
For more than 10 years, the relationship between the founder and Chairman Antonio Inoki and New Japan Pro-Wrestling had been broken. However, during that time, the respect for the creator of the organization that advocated the Strong Style has continued uninterrupted, not only from former members of the organization who had contact with him, but also from the generation that did not know him directly, including Kazuchika Okada. The distance between the two groups gradually narrowed before the 50th anniversary of New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
Unfortunately, the dream of having Inoki step into the ring with New Japan Pro-Wrestling again did not come true, but the film about Antonio Inoki is the filial piety from the current New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and at the same time, it is an expression of the Inoki-ism that still lives on as the original landscape of the organization. Please come and see it with your own eyes
.A trailer was released for the Antonio Inoki documentary as well:
Antonio Inoki founded NJPW in 1972. He passed away on October 1, 2022 at age 79.
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