Kendo Documentaries
A Single Blow
Documentary about the 2003 World Kendo Championship (in Glasgow) following the Japanese national squad and especially the captain, Naoki Eiga.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPR_L1wG45o]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2UjIB-l6TU]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZfkJZ9-sw]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8cF5TGhw3w]
Kendo’s Gruelling Challenge
A National Geographic documentary following two candidates aspiring to pass their Hachi (8th) dan grading in Kyoto, Japan.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXMfPPWkMVY]
Kendoka: the New Samurai
A documentary following the British Women’s Kendo squad as they take part in the World Kendo Championships in Glasgow 2003.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf3FRs42o0g]
The Way of the Warrior
Episode of 1970′s documentary about Aikido and Kendo
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlDYO9ORQ-U]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4gddU1nvOY]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMn-tO6AkqU]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIyp93JjpmM]
Pathe News
A newsreel broadcast, possibly from the 1960′s
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsBxx5ShLtE]
I Samurai
Documentary showing some training at Nenriki Kendo Club in south London
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ4bv2EeZe8]
