Aiki (film)

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 (2002-08-30) (Venice)
Running time	119 minutes[1]
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]

See also

• Aiki (martial arts principle)

References

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.

External links

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