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Judoka
196518 min 20 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Josef Reeve
Production: Bernard DevlinDavid Bairstow
Script: Josef Reeve
The unusual story of a young Canadian athlete, Doug Rogers, who developed, in Japan, a talent for judo that led him into competition for the world championship at the Tokyo Olympics and subsequent competition at the Pan-American Games. The film shows the intensive judo training Rogers took at a Tokyo college, as well as glimpses of his life in Japan.
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Subject categories
- Sports and Leisure > Boxing, Wrestling and Martial ArtsPortraits
- Foreign Countries > Japan
Credits
- director
- Josef Reeve
- script
- Josef Reeve
- producer
- Bernard Devlin
- David Bairstow
- camera
- Jean Roy
- Toku Kariya
- sound
- Akira Mimuro
- editing
- Michael McKennirey
- sound editing
- Don Wellington
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander