Aiki
Film poster
Directed byDaisuke Tengan
Written byDaisuke Tengan
Produced byHisao Iino
Shunsuke Koga
Yasushi Matsuda
StarringHaruhiko Katô
Rie Tomosaka
Chiaki Hara
Shōhei Hino
CinematographyYi-shu Yi
Edited byHirohide Abe
Music byYôko Kumagai
Hidehiko Urayama
Release date
  • August 30, 2002 (2002-08-30) (Venice)
Running time
119 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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

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.


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