Tokyo Olympiad

1965, 2h 50min -

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.

"Tokyo Olympiad" — movie produced in Japan and released in 1965. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.8 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 2h 50min. "Tokyo Olympiad" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Click on a playlink to watch it now!