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Blu-ray

Tokyo Olympiad = Tōkyō Orinpikku

Call Number

  • BLU-RAY 796.48 T6469 (CEN)

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Edition

Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

In Japanese, with English subtitles.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (168 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 17 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"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 vast team of technicians using scores of 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 the 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 effected a transformative influence on the art of documentary filmmaking."--Container.

Notes

Originally released as a documentary in 1965.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; audio commentary from 2001 by film historian Peter Cowie ; new introduction to the film by Cowie ; over 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 camera operator Masuo Yamaguchi, longtime Ichikawa collaborator Chizuko Osaka, and the director's son Tatsumi Ichikawa ; new interview with restoration producer Adrian Wood ; trailers.

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