Budo: The Art of Killing and aficionados. The film was eventually remastered and released on DVD in 2005 by Synapse Films. 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
Black company (Japanese term) a DVD titled "Black Kigyō ni Go-yōjin" (Beware of Black Companies) was released. The protagonist of the manga "ReLIFE" worked at a black company. In the manga and anime series "Warau Salesman" (Laughing Salesman), one of the victims/protagonist worked at Black Corporation and contemplated suicide before meeting the Laughing Salesman. Black company (Japanese term) A , also referred to in English as a black corporation or black business, is a Japanese term for an exploitative sweatshop-type employment system. While the term "sweatshop" is associated with manufacturing, and the garment trade in particular, in Japan black companies are not necessarily associated