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
Wudang Sword WenLung and Fu MeiLan. Wudang Sword Wudang Sword is a body of Chinese straight sword (jian) techniques—famous in China—encompassed by the Wudang chuan or internal martial arts. The oldest reputable accounts of Wudang Sword begin with Grandmaster Sung Wei-I around the turn of the 20th century. Sung taught Wudang Sword to Li Jing Lin and a few others. He learned the art from a Daoist named Zhang Ye-He, who was the 8th generation lineage holder. Sung also learned the martial art of Bagua from the kung fu brother of Dong Haichuan, the supposed creator of Baguazhang. Disciples of Li Jing