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I just watched the Karate Kid (just cos I can and got all three in one DVD really cheap today) and it occured to me that though heaps of people at the time took up karate as a result of this movie but then dropped it, lots would have stuck with it, wanting to be the next "Daniel". Movies spark interest. I mean, Strictly Ballroom gave ballroom dancing an amazing revival.

We need a kendo movie. (I'd love to say jodo but to be at least semi-realistic it just doesn't have the same widespread appeal).

I even have a concept! Two uni students sharing a room. One does kendo with the uni club. Lots of amusing incidents can come just from this, like airing stinky bogu in a small flat, limited drying space being taken up with dogi, and shinai lying about the place etc. Flat mate eventually decides to join and becomes his roomie's kohai. This opens up the way to explore the concepts of kendo and the thought kendoka put into their art off the shiaioji (sp?) and out of the dojo. You can even have the love interest in the dojo (cos it's a movie so there has to be a love interest and us Smutty Samuraiettes would get really annoyed if us lasses weren't represented).

Of course there has to be a goal. I suppose National team for sempai and grading or first shiai for kohai or something?

I know it'll never happen, but hey, we can dream. Just imagine how it would swell the numbers in the dojo? Most wont stay but that's normal and you'd get more people through the door than before.