Budo: The Art of Killing (1979)

Budo: The Art of Killing is an award winning 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.

If you liked Budo: The Art of Killing, you might also like…

91% match

Directed by John Ford

1971

90% match

Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron

2024

85% match

The Curse of the Dragon

1993

78% match

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me

2023

76% match

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

2019

73% match

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2013

68% match

Naqoyqatsi

2002

67% match

The Class of ‘92

2013

64% match

Come See Me in the Good Light

2025

60% match

Birth of the Living Dead

2013

60% match

The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

2009

60% match

To Kill a Tiger

2023

60% match

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye

2022

60% match

A Toxic Love Story

2026

60% match

McQueen

2018

60% match

Bruce Lee, the Legend

1984

60% match

Seduced and Abandoned

2013

60% match

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000

60% match

I Am Bruce Lee

2012

60% match

Casting By

2012