Tokyo Olympiad Film by Kon Ichikawa

Last semester I took a photography course that was about sports, olympia, body culture etc. , and I had to give a presentation on the olympic films. As you might know, each olympiad has one official film, though the most famous ones are those of Leni Riefenstahl 1936 and Kon Ichikawa 1964.

Kon Ichikawa’s “Tokyo Olympiad” shows the 1964 olympic games in a sometimes very poetic way, with some really beautiful camera. Someone put the whole film on youtube (divided into 20 parts or so, see it here), and for those of you who are interested in movies it’s worth watching them.

Here are 2 examples, but check out the other ones too, there are sooo many good scenes.