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
Indian martial arts silambam includes a variety of weapons such as the sword, twin sticks, double deer horns, whip, sword, shield and sword, dagger, flexible sword and sickle. Unarmed silambam ("kai silambam") is based on animal movements such as the snake, eagle, tiger and elephant. Other Martial Arts of Tamil Nadu are [[Varma Kalai]], Kalari payattu, Adi Thadi, [[Malyutham]] AND Gusthi (Boxing form of Tamil Nadu, not to be confused with North Indian [[Kushti]] which is a [[Wrestling]] art.) [[File:Kushti (in Bharatpur March 2013).jpg|right|thumb|Wrestling match in Bharatpur, 2013.]] Indian martial arts have influenced martial arts of numerous nations, specially in [[East Asia]] and