Film or VideoTokyo Olympiad
Main title
- Tokyo Olympiad / Toho Company, Inc. ; Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad ; directed by Kon Ichikawa ; written by Natto Wada, Yoshio Shirasaka, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Kon Ichikawa.
Edition
- [1990 long version]
Published/Created
- United States : The Voyager Company, [1990]
- Japan.
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Description
- 3 videodiscs of 3 (ca. 170 mins.) : sd., col., letterboxed ; 12 in. viewing copy.
LC classification
- DAA 2099 (viewing copy)
Variant title
- Tokyo Olympic
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Credits
- Music, Toshiro Mayazumi ; camera, Shigeo Hayashida, Kazuo Miyagawa, Juichi Nagano, Kinji Nakamura, Tadashi Tanaka.
Summary
- An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors--the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and leaving the field.
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Notes
- Copyright: no reg.
- Copyright notices on videodisc jacket: Toho Co. Ltd. ; 1965 [and] The Voyager Company ; 1990.
- Per Mangajin, 1992, p. 21: alternate title is Tokyo Olympic.
- English language title, Tokyo Olympiad appears on videodisc jacket.
- Released in Japan in 1965 by Toho. Japanese release version was 132 minutes long.
- Per phone call to Toho Company, Inc., 2/16/93, English language subtitled version first distributed in U.S. from 1965-1975 by Jack Douglas. From 1983-1984, Select TV of California had paid television rights. Per the AFI catalog, feature films, 1961-1970, p. 1117-1118, the original U.S. release copy was a 93 minute version with English language credits, subtitles and narration.
- Per M/B/RS Descriptions file (Washington post, 7/8/1988), a 154 minute version of this title was rereleased in the United States in 1988.
- LC copy is in Japanese with English language subtitles.
- Three discs in one jacket.
- Part of summary from The Washington post, 7/8/1988.
- On videodisc jacket: catalog no. CC1227L.
- LC also holds a 3/4 in. videocassette viewing copy in the Copyright Collection which is 160 minutes long and is in Japanese with no English subtitles.
- Sources used: Copyright data sheet; Variety, 5/26/65; International film guide, 1966, p. 103; Mangajin, 1992, p. 21; Japanese cinema, 1971, p. 192; phone call to Toho Company, Los Angeles, Calif., 2/16/93; M/B/RS Descriptions files; AFI catalog, feature films, 1961-1970; videodisc jacket.
Acquisition source
- Received: 2/24/93; viewing copy; purchase; LC Purchase Collection.
Series
- Criterion collection ; 117
LCCN
- 97501704
Language code
- jpn eng
Geographic area code
- a-ja---
Type of material
- Film or Video
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- Moving Image Research Center By Appointment (Madison LM336)
Status
- Not Charged
