Budo: The Art of Killing his native Japan until he came across Arthur Davis, an American film exhibitor who ran a distribution company in Tokyo. Davis stated he funded the film out of the respect and gratitude he felt towards Japan. "The Art of Killing" won first prize at the 1978 Miami International Film Festival, but did not find an American distribution deal until 1981, when it was acquired by Crown International Pictures and received a limited release in 1982 under the title "Budo". The film eventually got a VHS release through Prism Entertainment which helped build its cult status among Japanese martial arts practitioners
Japanese particles (written using a hiragana character with no other use in modern Japanese, originally assigned as "wo", now usually pronounced "o", though some speakers render it as "wo"). These exceptions are a relic of historical kana usage. There are eight types of particles, depending on what function they serve. Note that some particles appear in two types. For example, ""kara"" is a "case marker" where it describes where something is from or what happens after something; when it describes a cause it is a "conjunctive particle". "Ni" and "de" can both be used to show location, corresponding to the prepositions "in"