The World premiere of Kuro-obi!!

 

Wow.... this was the ending of an incredible weekend of festivities.... Dinner with the Consul General of Japan. A Special thanks to the fine people at The Klock Worx Co. who graciously took care of us during our stay in Montreal and especially to Kana Koido who made a lot of this happen for us ...... Domo Arigato!
 

Saturday Nights showing of Kuro-obi was also a special moment for us. Along with Sensei Ken Trebilcock, Sensei Steve Lyons, Sensei Bill Fournier, and Myself along with a few others which are named in the next pic, we all were ecstatic to find out we would perform Tenchi to open the Film. Watching over us is a proud father, Master YAGI, Meitatsu.
 

The other fortunate ones were Norma Vickerson, Mary Marjanovic, Jason and Liz Carr.... boy we had fun out there!!!
 

YAGI, Akihito Sensei performed a flawless SEPAI!!! It was beautiful to watch! We are so lucky that we will have some one of this calibre to lead the future generations of Meibukai! His Sepai concluded our Demo before the world premiere!
 

One of the Movie poster for Kuro-obi!
 

Yagi Akihito Sensei with the film's Director, Nagasaki Shunichi. Nagasaki san was delighted to hear that the movie touched our hearts. I will be the first to tell you... I cried my head off !!!

 This was the Saturday Morning prior to the first showing with fellow Meibukai and people of the Klock Worx Co.
 

 Can you tell that these guys are happy... it felt like Christmas in August!
 

 The Consul General was very happy to hear the classical Karate stories told by our Master, YAGI Meitatsu.
 

 Liz and Jay treated us to a wonderful horse and buggy ride in Old Montreal. Sensei gave it the thumbs up!!