Product Details

• Actors: Shioda, Tomiki, Tohei, Ueshiba, Saito
• Directors: Don Warrener
• Format: Black & White, Color, Original recording remastered, Restored, Special Edition, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Rising Sun Productions
• DVD Release Date: September 1, 2004
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00030LP10
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #94,271 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Ueshiba, Tohei, Tomiki, Saito, Shioda all on one DVD what else needs to be said?

Product Description
This is the best production ever of Aikido masters demonstrating ever put together in one tape. You will see the master himself demonstrate and then you will see his seniors all performing at their very best some in color some in B/W.

Names like Gozo Shioda, Koichi Tohei, Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Morihiro Saito, Master Ueshiba and several more of Aikido’s top masters all show you there skills.

Some of the footage is in full color while others of it dates back to the 1930’s so it is in B/W but it to is in very high quality.

You will see body techniques, sword techniques defence and Offensive, Tanto defence, jo offense and defence techniques one on one and multiple attackers plus just so much more it is incredible.

Much of this footage was lost until very recently and has never been available until mid 2004 so it has most likely not been seen before.

These are the men who Aikido owes its creation to.

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Customer Reviews

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth 30 dollars, February 25, 2005

By	Hans "Hans" (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews

The first DVD I got didn't have any information on it, so Amazon sent me another copy that did work. Irritating, but good costumer service by Amazon though. The content was dissapointing when compared to what I was led to believe before bying it. The last ten minutes there were three unknown aikidoka demonstrating! They are even presented as "unknown". Certainly not the masters advertised. The segment on Shioda is by far the best in production quality, but it's only about one minute in lenght. Tohei (the one in addition to Shioda, that I was mostly looking forward to watching) got about 30 seconds in slow motion. Saito about 9 minutes. Morihei Ueshiba about 7 minutes, but the picture clarity is lousy, despite what it says on the DVD cover that the black and white part was of very good quality. Since aikido is about fine motor skills and details, it was difficult to see what was going on when O'Sensei demonstrated. In conclusion; the company behind this DVD release should have higher ambitions concerning their business ethics and product quality. By the way, I recommend the DVD series "Practical Aikido" with Robert Koga and "Aikido Self Defense for the Modern Warrior" with David Dye, for real life aikido self-defense techniques. Two great instructors.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars May experience some technical difficulties..., February 22, 2005

By	Bushi "Bushy" (United States) - See all my reviews

I was happy to see a DVD on Aikido featuring a variety of its masters (rather than Ueshiba alone). But there is a wide discrepancy in the material quality from one master to the next and the end sequences look like someone just added in their own dojo's home movies to this otherwise historic footage of the masters.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor quality production, February 10, 2007

By	Gogoplata - See all my reviews

I've seen this footage elsewhere (and before 2004) contrary to what the ad tries to suggest that this was recently recovered "lost" footage.

Don't waste your money on this poor quality production. The Aikido Journal release "Aikido Classics" DVD is much better quality.