Tokyo Olympiad
DVD - 2020
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Sports films
Documentary films
Feature films - Published
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[New York, NY] :
The Criterion Collection
[2020]
- Language
- Japanese
English - Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition
- Item Description
- Title from title frame.
Originally released in 1965.
Wide screen (2.35:1).
Special features: audio commentary from 2001 by film historian Peter Cowie ; new introduction to the film by Cowie ; eighty minutes of additional material from the Tokyo Games, with a new introduction by Cowie ; archival interviews with director director Kon Ichikawa ; new documentary about Ichikawa featuring interviews with cameraman Masuo Yamaguchi, longtime Ichikawa collaborator Chizuko Osaka, and the director's son Tatsumi Ichikawa ; trailers ; an essay by film scholar James Quandt. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 170 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
- Format
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (2.35:1); mono.
- Audience
- Rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Music, Toshiro Mayazumi ; camera, Shigeo Hayashida, Kazuo Miyagawa, Juichi Nagano, Kinji Nakamura, Tadashi Tanaka.
- ISBN
- 9781681437286
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