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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.
Tokyo Olympiad: The Wind Passing Through the Flagpoles Kon Ichikawa aimed to show “the sweat” and “the pathos” of athletic ambition in this monumental documentary, the most extravagant Olympic film to date.
Tokyo Olympiad: Directed by Kon Ichikawa. With Antonio Ambu, Gary Anderson, Gerry Ashworth, Polina Astakhova. Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a record of observations that range from the expansive to the intimate.
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- Documentary, Sport
- Kon Ichikawa
- 1965-03-20
Jul 22, 2021 · Kon Ichikawa, director of the 1964 Olympics film Tokyo Olympiad, had been a key figure of Japan's "Golden Age" of cinema in the 1950s, and had been recognised at the Cannes and...
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Jul 13, 2021 · Fascism infused the Berlin Games and Riefenstahl’s film elevated the Olympics to mythic proportions, portraying athletes as something bordering on supernatural. In Tokyo Olympiad, the...
Kon Ichikawa (市川 崑, Ichikawa Kon, 20 November 1915 – 13 February 2008) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965), which won two BAFTA Film Awards, [1] and the ...
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Oct 16, 2019 · For the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Ichikawa Kon directed a film that has gone down in Olympic history. The Japanese filmmaker opted for an artistic approach to showcase the beauty and intensity of sport, its joys and exertions, and the faces of athletes from all over the world, in a lyrical work of stylistic beauty that has left a truly ...
