Tokyo Olympiad

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Call Number: DVD FLC-JPN Tokyo
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD FLC-JPN Tokyo	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally released in 1965.
Wide screen (2.35:1).
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.
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.
DVD, wide screen (2.35:1); mono.

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