880-01 Tōkyō Orinpikku / kikaku kanshū Orinpikku Tōkyō Taikai Soshiki Iinkai ; seisaku Tōkyō Orinpikku Eiga Kyōkai ; seisaku Suketaro Taguchi ; sōkantoku Ichikawa Kon = Tokyo Olympiad/ project & supervision by Organizing Committee for the Tokyo Olympic Games ; production by The Tokyo Olympic Film Assocation ; produced by Suketaro Taguchi ; directed by Kon Ichikawa ; screenplay by Natto Wada, Yoshio Shirasaka, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Kon Ichikawa.
Edition:
Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
2 videodiscs (168 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations)
With: Abebe Bikila ; Japanese narrator, Ichiro Mikuni ; English narrator: Jack Douglas. Title from title frame. Originally released in 1965. Wide screen (2.35:1). New 4K digital restoration. 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.
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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