Tokyo Olympiad /
Tokyo Olympiad /
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...
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| Language: | Japanese English |
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[United States] :
Criterion Collection,
[2002]
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2002], c1965 Irvington, NY : [2002] [New York, NY] : [2020] [Place of publication not identified] : [2020] |
| Series: | Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 155 Criterion collection ; 155 Criterion collection |
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| 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 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 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 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 |
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| Item Description: | Enhanced for widescreen televisions ; (2.35:1) aspect ratio Includes audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie, 1992 video interview with Kon Ichikawa, liner notes by George Plimpton, complete list of winners in all events, optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition, high definition digital transfer Includes chapter index, commentary and Ichikawa interview Originally produced in 1965 Originally released by Toho in 1965 Originally released in 1965 Special edition features: audio commentary from 2001 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; essay by film scholar James Quandt 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 Title from title frame Wide screen (2.35:1) Widescreen (2.35:1) |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). 1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in 1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 cm) 1 videodiscs (170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in 1 guide ([24] p. ; 18 cm.) 2 videodiscs (170 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in 1 booklet |
| Format: | Blu-ray, wide screen; mono; requires Blu-ray player DVD, Dolby digital mono DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (2.35:1); mono |
| Audience: | Rating: Not rated Not rated |
| Production Credits: | Camera, Shigeo Hayashida, Kazuo Miyagawa, Juichi Nagano, Kinji Nakamura, Tadashi Tanaka ; music, Toshiro Mayazumi Music, Toshiro Mayazumi ; camera, Shigeo Hayashida, Kazuo Miyagawa, Juichi Nagano, Kinji Nakamura, Tadashi Tanaka |
| ISBN: | 0780025067 1681437279 1681437287 9780780025066 9781681437279 9781681437286 |