Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Note: this print runs 125 minutes against a recorded 170 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Nando Martellini, Abebe Bikila, Hirohito
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Tokyo Olympiad, also known in Japan as Tōkyō Olympic (東京オリンピック, Tōkyō Orinpikku; lit. "Tokyo Olympics"), is a 1965 Japanese documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa which documents the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Like Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Ichikawa's film was considered a cinematographic milestone in documentary filmmaking. However, Tokyo Olympiad keeps its focus far more on the atmosphere of the games and the human side of the athletes rather than concentrating on winning and the results. It is one of the few sports documentaries included in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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