Tokyo Olympiad (DVD)

Format: DVD

Release Date: 2020-06-23

Studio: CRITERION, DISTRIBUTION S

Genre: Special Interest

Subgenres:

• Documentary
• Sports

Cast:

• A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy
• Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a team of hundreds of technicians using more than a thousand cameras
• Ichikawa captured the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo in glorious widescreen images
• using cutting-edge telephoto lenses and exquisite slow motion to create lyrical
• idiosyncratic poetry from the athletic drama surging all around him. Drawn equally to the psychology of losers and winners—including legendary Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila
• who receives the film’s most exalted tribute—Ichikawa captures the triumph
• passion
• and suffering of competition with a singular humanistic vision
• and in doing so effects a transformative influence on the art of documentary filmmaking.

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