Bibliograph

Tokyo Olympiad, Toho Company, Inc. ; Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad ; directed by Kon Ichikawa ; written by Natto Wada, Yoshio Shirasaka, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Kon Ichikawa

Type

Label

Tokyo Olympiad, Toho Company, Inc. ; Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad ; directed by Kon Ichikawa ; written by Natto Wada, Yoshio Shirasaka, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Kon Ichikawa

Language

jpn

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Not rated

Main title

Tokyo Olympiad

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

50274340

Responsibility statement

Toho Company, Inc. ; Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad ; directed by Kon Ichikawa ; written by Natto Wada, Yoshio Shirasaka, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Kon Ichikawa

Runtime

170

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 155

Summary

An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors-- the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and leaving the field

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo olympiad

Classification