Aiki is a 2002 Japanese film about a martial artist in a wheelchair, directed and written by Daisuke Tengan. It is loosely based on the life of a Danish practitioner of the Roppokai branch of Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu, Ole Kingston Jensen, who started training in Daitō-ryū after he was handicapped in an accident and now is the highest ranking non-Japanese member of the Roppokai.[2]
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Directed by | Daisuke Tengan |
Written by | Daisuke Tengan |
Produced by | Hisao Iino Shunsuke Koga Yasushi Matsuda |
Starring | Haruhiko Katô Rie Tomosaka Chiaki Hara Shōhei Hino |
Cinematography | Yi-shu Yi |
Edited by | Hirohide Abe |
Music by | Yôko Kumagai Hidehiko Urayama |
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Running time | 119 minutes[1] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
The film premiered at the 2002 Venice Film Festival.[3]
See also
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editExternal links
edit- Aiki at IMDb
- Interview with Ole Kingston Jensen at aikidojournal.com