Film

Tokyo Olympiad

• Action
• Light-hearted

Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad is less a record of medals than a visual symphony of effort and spectacle. Shot across 170 minutes with extraordinary intimacy, it finds drama in a pole-vaulter's desperation, a marathoner's exhaustion, and the faces of thousands watching. A meditation on human striving dressed as sports documentary—patient, humane, overwhelming in its beauty.