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Jul 22, 2021 · Kon Ichikawa's study of Tokyo's 1964 Games is considered one of the world's greatest documentaries. It captured the essence of a post-crisis nation – will a new film do the same?
- James Balmont
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 ...
Relive Ichikawa Kon’s iconic film about the 1964 Games. 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 ...
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 athletes...
Nov 12, 2022 · The picture is Conflagration (Enjō) directed by Kon Ichikawa in 1958, born out of the constant collaboration with his wife Natto Wada, who penned the screenplay. The film begins with a clarifying statement: it’s a fiction, not a historic account.
Mar 23, 2021 · In his 1962 movie An Actor’s Revenge, the director Kon Ichikawa presents the worlds of a touring kabuki theatre company and a group of thieves side by side.
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May 2, 2018 · A beginner’s path through the classic-packed career of Japanese master filmmaker Kon Ichikawa.
