DVD & Blu-ray: TOKYO OLYMPIAD - Criterion Collection

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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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Director: 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)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: None
Blu-ray: None

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DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
Blu-ray: LPCM Mono

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

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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