Company: NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK in association with NHK Global Media Services
Country: JAPAN
Section: DOCUMENTARY – INDIVIDUAL SPORT
Discipline: Martial Arts Kendo
Director: Shigenari Yano
Edting: Yutaka Tada
Photo: Toshio Kajiyama
Sound Effects: Kenji Sasaki
Sound Engineers: Koji Uchiyama, Masahiro Nakada
Producer: Jun Ito, Shinji Nakajima, Mitsuhiro Nishimura
Running Time: 44 min
SYNOPSYS:
Hidehisa Nishimura is a national champion of kendo – one of Japan’s traditional martial arts. His signature move is the so-called “Lightning Kote”: he flings into the opponent’s arms at the perfect timing and gains a point. It is the skill that led Nishimura, who is rather short as a kendo competitor, to victory. When he rescued the victims of the Kumamoto earthquake, he decided to change his style, by using a technique quite opposite to the previous one. He is now spending days on a thorny path trying to master kendo without regret under the pressure of not winning for two consecutive years.