Tokyo Olympiad (Criterion Collection) (1965) on Blu-ray

Actor: n/a
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Genre: Documentary
Year: 1965
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 168 Minutes
Released: 6/23/2020
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: Subtitled, Blu-ray,New 4K digital restoration, Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie, New introduction to the film by Cowie, Eighty minutes of additional material from the Tokyo Games, Archival interviews with director Kon Ichikawa, New documentary about Ichikawa
Language: English
Subtitles : Yes

DESCRIPTION:

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.