"Kendo" in Hollywood

[NewChina]

Has anyone seen the pseudo-kendo scene in Equilibrium, with Christian Bale and Taye Diggs? Is this a different form of kendo, or another sport completely, or just Hollywood make believe sports? I think there's a similar sport in one of the Animatrix shorts.

[Will]

Hollywood version

[ZrJn89]

Has anyone seen the pseudo-kendo scene in Equilibrium, with Christian Bale and Taye Diggs? Is this a different form of kendo, or another sport completely, or just Hollywood make believe sports? I think there's a similar sport in one of the Animatrix shorts.
Yeh its hollywood, real fights would last for a few seconds in which both would be dead or one severly wounded or one not wounded and the other dead