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    Tokyo Olympiad

    Poster of the movie Tokyo Olympiad
    Tôkyô orimpikku
    Japan
    1965     Documentary    
    2h 50min
    Original language: Japanese

    Hitting up the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with an army of cameramen, Ichikawa turned out a dynamic documentary that altered the entire vocabulary of modern sports cinematography, at once epic and intimate, delving into the psychology of the athlete.

    Directed byKon Ichikawa
    Written byKon Ichikawa, Yoshio Shirasaka

    Featuring

    Abebe Bikila
    Jack Douglas
    Hirohito

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