Does anybody know a movie about karate?

[seersin]

I'm sure somewhere there is also a movie about Gogen "the cat" Yamaguchi as well.

[Gyte]

I am training in Shindo Jinen-ryu Karate. Actually our style are similar (or maybe I should say "combination" of) to several traditional karate, includes Shito-ryu, Shotokan, and Wado ryu..etc. With very strong influence from Akido (which make us different from other karate styles), as well as influence from Kenjitsu, Iadio.

I have read something about the history of Shindo Jinen-ryu Karate, but it didn't show what it looked like. Could you tell us something more about it. Which kata's do you practise?

I'm sure somewhere there is also a movie about Gogen "the cat" Yamaguchi as well.

I looked at https://www.imdb.com for a movie about Gogen Yamaguchi, but I couldn't find any.

 

So If we have a movie about Masutatsu Oyama and Gogen Yamaguchi, I wonder why there isn't a movie about Gichin Funakoshi? I'm sure he had an interesting life, since he is much more known and is generally considered as the father of modern karate-do.

[kzshin]

I have read something about the history of Shindo Jinen-ryu Karate, but it didn't show what it looked like. Could you tell us something more about it. Which kata's do you practise?

 

Before black belt the kata we practice are really similar (almost same as shotokan), we practice kata such as Taikyuku, Hian, Tekki....and such, after Nindan (I think) then instructor will teach Shindo Jinen Ryu's special katas. I am not black belt yet, so I dunno how many are out there. However, I happened to be lucky enough to know one of the special katas. It's called taisabaki shodan. This kata was developed by Konishi O'sensei, and has strong influence of Akido, so this kata has involves grappling. I have seen another special kata called "Seiryu" however, I think this kata were also teach either in wado ryu or shito ryu ( forgot which one) cuz this kata was co-developed by founder of Shindo Jinen ryu (Konishi O'sensei) and two other Japanese karate founders.

[Gyte]

That's very interesting. I have read that the kata Seiryu was developed by Yasuhiro Konishi (founder of Shindo Jinen-ryu karate) and Kenwa Mabuni (founder of Shito-ryu karate). According to the story Konishi was asked by the commanding general of the Japanese Army to develop women's self-defense techniques. So Konishi asked Mabuni to help him with this. Together they developed a kata and shared it with Morihei Uyeshiba (founder of Aikido), who advised some changes. They called the kata Seiryu, which is sometimes also called Aoyagi.

 

I did a search on the internet and found the following site :

 

http://www.jinmukan.com/sv/index.shtml

 

On this site are the kata Seiryu and the Tai-sabaki kata's you talk about. It gave me a good impression what Shindo Jinen-ryu karate looks like.

Edited May 5, 2005 by Gyte

[kzshin]

Jimukan, that's sensei High's place. Good Find.

 

The information you got is absolutely accurate. And due to the Akido influence, we were expose to various grappling technics even at early stage of training.

[username9]

A Karate Movie: Best of the Best, and the three sequals.

 

It is meant to be a Karate Film but it is kind of freestyle and the main fight is from two TaeKwon DoKa.

 

It is a great fighting film and a lovely tacky 80's film!

 

hehe

[artusio]

Apart from the Karate Kid series, I know of "Kill or Be Killed" (south-african film which features both fighting and kata) and a documentary film about a kyokushin karate tournament, "Dragon", if I'm not mistaken.

 

Both were shot in the late 70's.

 

You can find more on "Kill or Be Killed" in this forum.

[ravenzoom]

Go for the Steet Fighter series Starring Sonny Chiba, these are very good, and very violent. I just happened to watch the Street Fighters last Revenge yesterday - very good Karate movie, you can't go wrong with those. Even though they are old movies they are still very good. And you get to see some cute naked Japanese girls in there - ouch!!

[Goju_boi]

All these people have said the karate kid series,but I've read that the people in the movie were taught Tang Soo Do.

[Gyte]

All these people have said the karate kid series,but I've read that the people in the movie were taught Tang Soo Do.

Well, to my information, martial arts choreographer Pat Johnson was the one that had studied Tang Soo Do. He also played the referee in the movie. The only karate black belts in Karate Kid 1 were Fumio Demura [the stand-in for Pat Morita], Daryl Vidal [a contestant of the karate tournament], Ron Thomas [bobby, one of the Cobra Kai].

The rest of the cast had berely any martial arts training. Not Ralph Macchio [Daniel], not Pat Morita [Mr. Miyagi], not William Zabka [Johnny] and not Martin Kove [sensei Kreese]. However, Pat Johnson did trained them for the movie.