Karate Man

[shinobitribe]

Hi guys,

I saw a wonderful short film titled Karate Man which features Sensei Eihachi Ota. The film is brilliantly made and has a Quentin Tarantino feel to it but at the same time has a wonderful message about sticking to your roots and not getting carried away by the modern day crap. It was wonderful to hear Sensei Ota speak so passionately. Has anyone else seen it ? what are your thoughts? any similar movies that you guys might recommend ? For those that have not seen it, watch it. It is posted on Youtube.

[MasterPain]

Link please?

[shinobitribe]

Hey MasterPain,

Did you receive the link to the movie. I PM'ed you but there seems to be some issue on my end.

[JohnASE]

Thanks for posting! I loved it! Found it on YouTube uploaded by Habunami.

Of course, I might be biased. I've met Ota Sensei a few times. He buys things from us every once in a while, and we've put up a booth at a couple of his tournaments. Oh, and my mom's cousin is one of his black belts, although health problems have kept him out of the dojo for a while.

I liked the way they broke it up into segments, each of which had pretty interesting info. I think they could've done the retro 50's instructional segment better, but I thought it was very well done overall.

I don't have anything to recommend, but I'm looking forward to seeing a documentary on Demura Sensei that is supposed to be released next year, or maybe it was end of this year. I think it's feature length. I don't know if the title has been finalized yet, but I've heard FUMIO DEMURA: THE MOVIE and FUMIO DEMURA: THE REAL MIYAGI.

[hiddendragon98]

my sensei was in a film years ago entitled zen gold he is the samurai his name will be in the credits its on youtube look it up its pretty good