November 29, 2002
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Aiki (2002)

Name: Aiki
Genre: Drama
Released: 2002-11-29

1h 59m

Running Time

November 29, 2002
Release Date

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Plot.

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.

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Release Date
November 29, 2002

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 59m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-04-01

Wiki.

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.

The film premiered at the 2002 Venice Film Festival.