Aiki
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[edit] Profile
- Movie: Aiki
- Director: Daisuke Tengan
- Writer: Daisuke Tengan
- Producer: Hisao Iino, Shunsuke Koga, Yasushi Matsuda
- Cinematography: Yi-shu Yi
- Release Date: November 30, 2002
- Runtime: 119 min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
[edit] Plot
When a promising young boxer (Haruhiko Katô) is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression. No boxing rink or martial arts club will take him on -- that is, until an aiki jujitsu master (Ryo Ishibashi) helps the young man develop techniques uniquely tailored to a wheelchair. Directed by Daisuke Tengan, 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.
[edit] Cast
- Haruhiko Kato - Taichi Ashihara
- Rie Tomosaka - Masako
- Chiaki Hara - Tamiko Ashihara
- Akiko Kinouchi - Chika
- Ryo Ishibashi - Masatsugu Hiraishi
- Shohei Hino - Kiyoshi
- Masahiro Kuwana - Shotaro Gensui
- Kansuke Shimizu - Kawazoe
- Shiro Sano - Video-ya no kyaku
- Kimiko Yo - 'Himegoto' no Mama
- Masatoshi Nagase - Bartender
- Shunsuke Matsuoka - Bar no avec-otoko
- Tatsuya Gashuin - Yubin-haitatsu-in
- Hiroshi Kanbe - Rental Video tenchou
- Tomorowo Taguchi - Saburo Ishikawa
