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Boxsets Box Sets Tokyo Olympiad CAV WS NEW LaserDisc 117 Criterion Box Drama Foreign

Tokyo Olympiad CAV WS NEW LaserDisc 117 Criterion Box Drama Foreign

Kon Ichikawa's Record of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics...

Tokyo Olympiad CAV WS NEW LaserDisc 117 Criterion Box Drama Foreign

Kon Ichikawa's Record of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics...

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Kon Ichikawa's Record of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics...

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Kon Ichikawa's... Abebe Bikila and Jack Douglas in...

Tokyo Olympiad

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1227L )
(2.35:1) (6 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Japanese with In-Picture English Subtitles
Liner Note by Jeff Kisseloff

Tokyo Olympiad
1965 - 170 min. - Color
Genre: Documentary
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Commissioned to create a record of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Kon Ichikawa's film is executed with the same attention to detail and sense of formal beauty characteristic of his fictional masterworks. Assisted by the great cameraman Kazuo Miyagawa (cinematographer on classic films such as Akira Kurosawa's RASHOMON, Yasujiro Ozu's UKIGUSA, and Kenji Mizoguchi's UGETSU), who supervised the 164 camera operators the project required, the director thrusts the viewer into the games in medias res rather than dwelling on the familiar narrative rhythms of victory and defeat. Ichikawa does spend some time on the heroes of the Games, such as famed Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila in his attempt to repeat his gold medal performance of four years earlier, and sprinter Bob Hayes, who demonstrates why he was once known as the fastest man alive. But Ichikawa is equally drawn to the intensity, dedication, and self-discipline of the nonmedalists, for whom their sport is a way of life--a Soviet woman hammer thrower caught in freeze-frame, yacht-race crewmen hanging far over the side of a boat, and an exhausted marathon runner rushed to the hospital. Employing frequent cuts to spectator reactions, he also makes them participants in the drama of competition. While almost diametrically opposed in form and function to OLYMPIA, Leni Riefenstahl's 1938 masterpiece, this gorgeous, lynx-eyed film deserves a place alongside it in film history.

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Cast for Tokyo Olympiad

Abebe Bikila
Jack Douglas

Crew for Tokyo Olympiad

Kon Ichikawa
 Kon Ichikawa
 Yoshio Shirasaka
 Shuntaro Tanikawa
 Natto Wada
 Suketaru Taguchi

Feature Details

Title: Tokyo Olympiad
Feature Release Date: 1965
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Color
Runtime: 170 Minutes
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

Catalog Number: CC1227L
UPC: 715515001205
ISBN: 155940115X
Manufacturer: 3M or IMATION
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Sides: 6
Cover: Box Set
Spoken Language: Japanese
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1227L-N
Shipping Weight: 3 lbs
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Rare Factory-Sealed, CAV, Widescreen, LaserDisc Boxset Movie

Near-Mint Condition

Kon Ichikawa's... Abebe Bikila and Jack Douglas in...

Tokyo Olympiad

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1227L )
(2.35:1) (6 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Japanese with In-Picture English Subtitles
Liner Note by Jeff Kisseloff

Tokyo Olympiad
1965 - 170 min. - Color
Genre: Documentary
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Commissioned to create a record of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Kon Ichikawa's film is executed with the same attention to detail and sense of formal beauty characteristic of his fictional masterworks. Assisted by the great cameraman Kazuo Miyagawa (cinematographer on classic films such as Akira Kurosawa's RASHOMON, Yasujiro Ozu's UKIGUSA, and Kenji Mizoguchi's UGETSU), who supervised the 164 camera operators the project required, the director thrusts the viewer into the games in medias res rather than dwelling on the familiar narrative rhythms of victory and defeat. Ichikawa does spend some time on the heroes of the Games, such as famed Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila in his attempt to repeat his gold medal performance of four years earlier, and sprinter Bob Hayes, who demonstrates why he was once known as the fastest man alive. But Ichikawa is equally drawn to the intensity, dedication, and self-discipline of the nonmedalists, for whom their sport is a way of life--a Soviet woman hammer thrower caught in freeze-frame, yacht-race crewmen hanging far over the side of a boat, and an exhausted marathon runner rushed to the hospital. Employing frequent cuts to spectator reactions, he also makes them participants in the drama of competition. While almost diametrically opposed in form and function to OLYMPIA, Leni Riefenstahl's 1938 masterpiece, this gorgeous, lynx-eyed film deserves a place alongside it in film history.

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Cast for Tokyo Olympiad

Abebe Bikila
Jack Douglas

Crew for Tokyo Olympiad

Kon Ichikawa
 Kon Ichikawa
 Yoshio Shirasaka
 Shuntaro Tanikawa
 Natto Wada
 Suketaru Taguchi

Feature Details

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