Tokyo Olympiad criterion lives under the heavy thumb

lives under the heavy thumb of the sadistic

in a rare on-screen performance) working in his family’s textile business and his girlfriend (Tsai Chin)

but after she is raped by her mother’s lover and abandoned by the young man who claims to care for her

Interview from 2007 with Paul Mason

restored 4K digital transfer

Tokyo Olympiad criterion lives under the heavy thumbA spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawas Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a vast team of technicians using scores of cameras, Ichikawa captured the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo in glorious widescreen images, using cutting edge telephoto lenses and exquisite slow motion to create lyrical, idiosyncratic poetry from the athletic drama surging all around him. Drawn