Budo: The Art of Killing (1978)
1978 film
- Released
- 1978
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- Masayoshi Nemoto
- Music
- Stomu Yamash'ta
- Running time
- 101 minutes
- Distributor
- Crown International Pictures
Budo: The Art of Killing is a 1978 Japanese martial arts documentary created and produced by Hisao Masuda and financed by The Arthur Davis Company. Considered a cult classic, the film is a compilation of various Japanese martial art demonstrations by several famous Japanese instructors such as Gozo Shioda, Taizaburo Nakamura and Teruo Hayashi. Martial arts featured in the film include: karate, aikido, kendo, sumo, and judo among others. The only modern Japanese martial art not featured in the film is kyūdō.
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Facts from Wikidata Q4985152 (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.