Aiki (2002)
When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression. No boxing ring or martial arts club will take him on -- that is, until an aiki jujitsu master helps the young man develop techniques uniquely tailored to a wheelchair. What starts off as a sad film revs up into an exciting and fun series of epiphanies in which the young man realizes his situation isn't as hopeless as it seems.
- Date of release
- 2002-11-29
- TMDB
- 4.8 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Daisuke Tengan
Casting
- Haruhiko Kato — Taichi Ashihara
- Rie Tomosaka — Masako
- Chiaki Hara — Tamiko Ashihara
- Ryo Ishibashi — Masatsugu Hiraishi
- Masatoshi Nagase
- Tomorowo Taguchi
- Shiro Sano
- Kimiko Yo
- Shunsuke Matsuoka
- Tatsuya Gashuin
- Hiroshi Kanbe
- Yoji Tanaka
Interesting facts
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.
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