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Tokyo Olympiad [videorecording (DVD)] / Janus Films ; Olympic Film Association ; produced by Suketaro Taguchi ; written by Kon Ichikawa, Yoshio Shirasaka, Shuntar¿џ Tanikawa, Natto Wada ; directed by Kon Ichikawa.

Tōkyō Orinpikku

New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2020]

2 videodiscs (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..

digital optical

NTSC

video file region 1

DVD video

MPAA rating: Not rated.

A spectacle of magnificent proportions, Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad ranks among the greatest documents of sport ever committed to film. Utilizing glorious widescreen cinematography, Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a catalogue of extraordinary observations that range from the expansive to the intimate. The glory, despair, passion, and suffering of Olympic competition are rendered with lyricism and technical mastery, culminating in an inspiring testament to the beauty of the human body and the strength of the human spirit.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1965.

Mono, widescreen 2.35:1.

Essay by film scholar James Quandt in container.

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 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; new English subtitle translation.

For private home use only.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

Olympic Games (18th : 1964 : Tokyo, Japan)

Olympic athletes.

Sports films.

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.

Ichikawa, Kon, 1915-2008, screenwriter, director.

9781681437286

1681437287

715515247115

CC3156D

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