Aiki (film)

Aiki
Aiki
	Film poster
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
Release date	August 30, 2002 (Venice);
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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]

The film premiered at the 2002 Venice Film Festival.^[3]

References

^ "Aiki". TimeOut. 10 September 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
^ "Aiki" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
^ Rooney, David (August 30, 2002). "Aiki". Retrieved July 10, 2020.

External links

Aiki at IMDb
Interview with Ole Kingston Jensen at aikidojournal.com

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[1] "Aiki". TimeOut. 10 September 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2020.

[2] "Aiki" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 2021-01-14.

[3] Rooney, David (August 30, 2002). "Aiki". Retrieved July 10, 2020.

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