Tokyo Olympiad

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Tokyo Olympiad
Directed by	Kon Ichikawa
Screenplay by	Natto Wada Yoshio Shirasaka Shintaro Tanikawa Kon Ichikawa[1]
Produced by	Suketaro Taguchi[1]
Narrated by	Ichiro Mikuni[1]
Cinematography	Shigeo Hayashida Kazuo Miyagawa[1]
Edited by	Yoshio Ebara[1]
Music by	Toshiro Mayuzumi[1]
Production company	Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad[1]
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	20 March 1965 (1965-03-20) (Japan)
Running time	169 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥1.22 billion (Japan rentals) 24.5 million tickets (Japan/France)

Tokyo Olympiad, also known in Japan as Tōkyō Olympic (東京オリンピック, Tōkyō Orinpikku, lit. "Tokyo Olympics"), is a 1965 Japanese documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa which documents the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Like Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Ichikawa's film was considered a cinematographic milestone in documentary filmmaking. However, Tokyo Olympiad keeps its focus far more on the atmosphere of the games and the human side of the athletes rather than concentrating on winning and the results. It is one of the few sports documentaries included in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.