Aikido Movies

The best-known Aikido movies would be those by a real Aikidoka turned actor, Steven Seagal.

His first movie, Above The Law made in 1988 showed some pretty good Aikido moves. They should have been good, too, because Seagal is a 7th Dan black belt - which makes Stevel Seagal a real Shihan or martial arts "teacher-of-teachers".

Steven Seagal Shihan learned his Aikido during the 1960s and 70s and was awarded his Shodan (1st level black belt) by Koichi Tohei Sensei, the founder of Shin Shin Toitso Aikido (also known as The Ki Society).

Another screen character to popularize the idea of Aikido much earlier was the British TV character Doctor Who, otherwise known as 'The Doctor' who, the story goes, "learned Venusian Aikido, a martial art that few two-armed beings have mastered". (Inferno, Day of the Daleks, and others; The Seventh Doctor favored a more subtle version of Aikido which involved applying a single finger"... (From: http://www.whosdw.com/earlydoc.html - a Doctor Who website.)

So far we've talked about Aikido in movies and TV, but if you're after Aikido videos and DVDs or Aikido video clips, that's a different subject altogether.

Take a look at this page, and you'll see a page listing the 17 basic techniques of Tomiki (or Shodokan) style Aikido. Select any of the techniques, and you'll be able to see an animated GIF picture of each Aikido technique.