Japan’s National Stadium was fanless four years ago during the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics. There was zero atmosphere for ...

What Is 'Tokyo Olympiad' About? Documenting the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, this official film was directed by Cannes Jury Prize winner Kon Ichikawa.

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Tokyo Olympiad is a film about individuals at their terminal limits: stretched, tested, broken sometimes, sometimes exultant. It is also about the Olympics as an idea, but an idea not born of ...

Kon Ichikawa’s documentary of the 1964 games is one of the great sporting documentaries – if not simply one of the great documentaries.

Every modern Olympics — even the first, in Athens in 1896 — has been recorded on film. Some of the most famous documentaries inspired by the Games include Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia, her ...

What’s Streaming TOKYO OLYMPIAD (1965) Stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max; rent on Google Play, iTunes and YouTube. Athletes and aesthetes alike can appreciate this documentary by the ...

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“Olympiad” ventures out into metropolitan Tokyo when the athletes hit the streets in the cycling road race in Hachiōji, the 50-kilometer race walk (Ichikawa comically focuses on the walkers ...

Tokyo Olympiad opens and closes with a blazing red sun in the middle of a Cinemascope frame, a near-perfect illustration of the Japanese flag and seemingly one of the few occasions for overt ...