"I can't do this for 10 years. I want to have a normal job. I want to live in a normal house. I want to eat normal food. I want to live a normal life."
Those were some of the last words spoken by Takuya Ogushi in director Jill Coulon's powerful and revealing documentary "A Normal Life: Chronicle of a Sumo Wrestler."
Ogushi did manage to stick with it for 10 more years though, and on Monday, under the ring name Kyokutaisei, he was promoted to sumo's highest division for the first time.
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