Displaying 1 of 1 2020 ● DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: Tokyo Olympiad / director, Kon Ichikawa Publisher, Date: [New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020] Description: 2 videodiscs (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD video Summary: 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. Target Audience Note: Rating: Not rated. Subjects: Olympics (1964 : Tokyo) Motion pictures, Japanese. Olympics. Genre: Sports films. Sports films. Other Author: Ichikawa, Kon, 1915-2008, film director. Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher. Other Title: Criterion Collection presents Tokyo Olympiad At head of title: Criterion Collection presents Notes: Title from sell sheet. Originally released in 1965. Wide screen (2.35:1). Special features: 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 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 ; an essay by film scholar James Quandt. DVD, wide screen (2.35:1); mono. Japanese dialogue; English subtitles. Call Number: 796.48 Tok Total Copies: 1 Available Copies: 0 Current Holds: 0 ISBN: 9781681437286 Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Location/Availability Annotations Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
