Aiki (2002)
2002 film by Daisuke Tengan
- Released
- 2002
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- Daisuke Tengan
- Starring
- Rie Tomosaka
- Running time
- 119 minutes
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.
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q4696965 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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