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Program Title: Human Weapon: Judo: Samurai Legacy
Channel: The History Channel on TrueVisions (A23) and (D44)
Telecast date: Thursday, 3 April, 2008
Telecast Time: 8.00 p.m. (Thai)
Duration: 1 hour
Our hosts, Jason Chambers and Bill Duff, are in Japan to test their tolerance to physical pain; to reach a higher level of intense training. They are in Japan to understand the techniques and history of Japan's national martial art: Judo. Derived from the bloody battlefields of feudal Japan and jujutsu fighting styles of the samurai, judo has an illustrious past of deadly skills and honor. Along their journey, our hosts travel through the cultural centers of Tokyo, Kyoto and Okayama. A world champion judoka shows our hosts special, match-winning techniques, and the descendent of a 400-year-old line of samurai, teaches them the differences between the deadly art of jujutsu and the gentle way of judo.