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(More customer reviews)I first saw a review for this video in a French magazine (for the French language edition) and assumed therefore that it had been made in France. Wrong! It was made in the US then exported all over the place and translated into different languages including, would you believe, Japanese. The reason is that, apart from being beautifully made, the video is unique because it includes about 20 minutes of professionally made film of the man who started this style of karate performing his own creation. Rather like watching Wolfgang Mozart, play Mozart! The film was taken at Berkeley University in 1965 and had been in a private collection ever since. Its discovery was a landmark event as no high quality record of this long dead karate master had been available previously, but now we could study every movement at normal and slow speed and rewind to our heart's content. The show is sensitively and very professionally presented with traditional flute and koto background music and really nice old photos of the master in his youth. Obviously the people who put it together loved the subject because every small part of the production is done with real style and the show, even after many, many viewings still looks really polished to my eye. I bought part 2 when it came out and will buy the same two shows on DVD when it is released
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