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A Matter of Size (2009)

A Matter of Size (2009)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 2009, April 27
Directors: Erez Tadmor, Sharon Maymon
Countries: Germany, France, Israel
Production: K5 Film, MACT Productions, Tapuz Communications
Cast: Togo Igawa, Albert Iluz, Dvir Benedek, Irit Kaplan, Levana Finkelstein, Itzik Cohen, Evelin Hagoel, Alon Dahan, Shmulik Cohen, Hila Sorjon-Fisher

Overview:

Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in Ramle he discovers the world of Sumo where large people such as himself are honored and appreciated. Through Kitano (60 kilos), the restaurant owner, a former Sumo coach in Japan (who is supposedly hiding from the Yakuza in Israel), he falls in love with a sport involving "two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos". Herzl wants Kitano to be their coach but Kitano is reluctant - they first have to earn their spurs. "A MATTER OF SIZE" is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.

Keywords:

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