Tokyo Olympiad

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Foreign Title: Tôkyô orinpikku
Date: January 01, 1965 to December 31, 1965
Dates Note: 1965
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Languages: Japanese
Color: Color
Silent: No
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Kazuo Miyagawa: Cinematographer and Visual Stylist
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This is a masterpiece of poetic documentary filmmaking, presented in its original almost-three-hour version. Kon Ichikawa, inspired by Leni Riefenstahl’s immortal coverage of the 1936 Olympics, decided to make a documentary of the 1964 games in Tokyo. His project involved 164 camera operators (supervised by Kazuo Miyagawa and Shigeo Hayashida) plus a crew of 500, making it an Olympian feat. But Ichikawa was intent on making “a visual poem of peace and human equality.” The result: every frame is an exercise in film experimentation, “an idiosyncratic, formally innovative, and surprisingly intimate film” (James Quandt).

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