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• [ACT-R]
  
• [Alan/HAL]
  
• [CAM-Brain]
  
• [Cog]
  
• [Cyc]
  
• [Mentifex]
  
• [NARS]
  
• [Novamente]
  
• [OSCAR]
  
• [SOAR]
  
• [World-Wide-Mind]
  
• (other suggestions?)
  

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Aiki
Thu 07 Nov 16.15 - National Film Theatre screen 1 [Map]
Thu 07 Nov 20.45 - National Film Theatre screen 1 [Map]

Film Details | Public Film Review

Taichi is a high-school drop-out just starting out as a pro boxer when a road accident leaves him paralysed from the waist down. During a long stay in hospital and an even longer convalescence, he wallows first in thoughts of suicide, then in aggressive and self-destructive behavior. Things begin to look up when he’s mistaken for the attempted rescuer of a rape victim: he’s offered a job, meets a phenomenal young woman and gets accepted as a pupil by a master of aiki-jujutsu (Ryo Ishibashi, from Audition), the martial art which channels aggression back to the aggressor, who takes him on because he’s intrigued by the challenge of teaching someone confined to a wheelchair. It’s hard to pinpoint the qualities which take Aiki so high above the level of ‘uplift’ movies.

Partly it’s the film’s abrasive honesty about matters medical, physical and psychological. Partly it’s the director’s idiosyncratic vision of human interaction in all its strangeness and absurdity. (Tengan happens to be the son of Shohei Imamura.) Partly it’s the wonder of aiki-jujutsu itself, a real see-it-to-believe-it spectacle. And a large part is the astonishing performance of Ishibashi, fast emerging as one of Japan’s finest screen actors.

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