Scott Shaw is one of the most advanced non-Korean practitioners of the Korean martial of Hapkido in the world. He is ranked a 7th Degree Black Belt Master by the Korea Hapkido Federation.
The final two credits in virtually all his films are, "In Memory of Dinosaur Filmmaking" and "The Zen."
He is the creator of Zen Filmmaking. In Zen Filmmaking no scripts are used. There are no rules and no definitions. The spontaneous creative energy of the filmmaker is the only defining factor - this allows for a spiritually pure source of immediate inspiration to be the only guide in the filmmaking process.
Graduated from Hollywood High School in Hollywood, California
Is often called, Swamiji or Baba by his friends. This is in obvious reference to the time he spent in India as a monk.
Lives much of every year at his beach house in Kamakura, Japan.
He was the first non-Korean ever to be awarded the advanced master rank of 7th Degree Black Belt by the prestigious Korea Hapkido Federation.
Holds both American and Japanese citizenship.
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