Budo: The Art of Killing Budo: The Art of Killing 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. The only modern Japanese martial art not featured in the film is kyudo. "Budo: The Art of Killing" is a compilation of various gendai
Muda (Japanese term) Muda (Japanese term) From an end-customer's point of view, value-added work is any activity that produces goods or provides a service for which a customer is willing to pay; "muda" is any constraint or impediment that causes waste to occur. There are two types of muda: One of the key steps in lean process and TPS is to identify which activities add value and which do not, then to progressively work to improve or eliminate them. Taiichi Ohno, "father" of the Toyota Production System, originally identified seven forms of "muda" or waste: Later, an eighth waste, unused skills, was added.