Aiki (2002)

Aiki 2002 / あいき 2002 / アイキ

When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression. No boxing rink or martial arts club will take him on -- that is until an Aiki Jujitsu master helps the young man develop techniques uniquely tailored to a wheelchair. Directed by Daisuke Tengan, what starts off as a sad film revs up into an exciting and fun series of epiphanies in which the young man realizes his situation isn't as hopeless as it seems.