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The full name of the society is the Budokwai (The Way of Knighthood Society) [7] but it is normally called The Budokwai. The name Budokwai was chosen by the society's founder Gunji Koizumi as a combination of the Japanese words bu (武) meaning military or martial, do (道) meaning the way or code, kwai (会) meaning public building or a society/club. [8]
Gunji Koizumi (小泉 軍治, Koizumi Gunji, 8 July 1885 – 15 April 1965), known affectionately by colleagues as G.K., [1] [2] was a Japanese master of judo who introduced this martial art to the United Kingdom, [3] and came to be known as the 'Father of British Judo.' [4] [5] He was the founder of the Budokwai, a pioneering Japanese martial arts society in England.
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Roger Ebert gave the film a four out of four rating and stated: How strange, a movie where a bad man becomes better, instead of the other way around. Tsotsi, a film of deep emotional power, considers a young killer whose cold eyes show no emotion, who kills unthinkingly, and who is transformed by the helplessness of a baby. He didn't mean to ...
Leggett joined the Budokwai in London in 1932, training primarily under Yukio Tani, who would have a profound influence on the young man. [1] [2] [4] Biographers Anthony Dunne and Richard Bowen (2003) relate that on one occasion, Leggett "looked in at the Budokwai, but, feeling a bit off colour and deciding not to train, walked away.
In 1950, he was interviewed by Gunji Koizumi for an article appearing in the Budokwai newsletter, and later that year he was presented to the audience at a Budokwai gathering in London as "the pioneer of jiujitsu in Great Britain". He died in 1951, at the age of 90, and was buried in what the martial arts historian Richard Bowen described as "a ...
6-5=2 is a 2013 Kannada found footage horror film, written and directed by K S Ashoka in his directoral debut. It is the first found footage film in Kannada. [2] The plot revolves around a fatal trek accident. [3] The film was reported to have taken its inspiration from the 1999 American independent film The Blair Witch Project. [3]
Unique to this era is the union of music and film featuring Cambodia's most talented actors and singers. As nearly every film produced in this era is accompanied by at least one song from Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Sereysothea or other singers of the era. Between 1965 - 1975, at least 300 films were produced and screened throughout the nation's theatres.