Tokyo Olympiad

Year: 1965

Runtime: 170 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Kon Ichikawa

Documentary

The film offers an impressionistic view of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics, focusing equally on athletes, spectators and the laborers who built the Games. It showcases a dramatic pole‑vault duel between West Germany and the United States and the climactic marathon that winds through Tokyo’s streets. The documentary highlights Ethiopian marathon legend Abebe Bikila winning his second gold and Chad’s Ahamed Isa, competing for a nation younger than himself.

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