Product Description: 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. Drawn equally to the psychology of losers and winners—including 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 effects a transformative influence on documentary filmmaking.
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JUMP BACK TO TOPDirector: Kon Ichikawa
Starring: Abebe Bikila, Jack Douglas, Joe Frazier
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Runtime: 171 min
Rating: Not Rated
Language: Japanese
Studio: Criterion
Home Video Release Date: June 23, 2020
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- Codec: MPEG-2
- Resolution: 480i
- Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
- Encoding Format: 16:9
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Blu-ray
- Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
- Resolution: 1080p
- Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
- Region: Region A/1
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- DVD: None
- Blu-ray: None
Audio Formats:
- DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
- Blu-ray: LPCM Mono
SUBTITLES
JUMP BACK TO TOPDVD: English
Blu-ray: English
SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS
JUMP BACK TO TOP- 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- 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 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
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt
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