Tokyo Olympiad /

An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors: the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collap...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Tōkyō Orinpikku (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors:	Orinpikku Tōkyō Taikai Soshiki Iinkai, Tōkyō Orinpikku Eiga Kyōkai, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors:	Ichikawa, Kon, 1915-2008 (Screenwriter, Director), Taguchi, Suketaro (Producer), Wada, Natsuto, 1920-1983 (Screenwriter)
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Japanese
Language Notes:	In Japanese, with optional English subtitles and optional English commentary; accompanying booklet in English.
Published:	[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2002]
Series:	Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 155.
Subjects:	Olympic Games > (18th : > 1964 : > Tokyo, Japan) Olympic Games. Sports films. Documentary films. Feature films. Nonfiction films.

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Summary:	An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors: the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and leaving the field. There is frequent use of close-ups of sports actions. Peripheral scenes have close-ups depicting faces in the dining room.
Item Description:	Widescreen (2.35:1). Released as a motion picture by Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha in 1965. Accompanying booklet contains: Essays, film credits and DVD production credits. Special features: 1992 video interview with Ichikawa Kon, optional audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie.
Physical Description:	1 DVD-video (170 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Format:	DVD; Dolby digital mono.
Audience:	Not rated.
Production Credits:	Music, Toshiro Mayazumi ; camera, Shigeo Hayashida, Kazuo Miyagawa, Juichi Nagano, Kinji Nakamura, Tadashi Tanaka.
ISBN:	0780025067 9780780025066