A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a team of hundreds of technicians using more than a thousand 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.

Originally released in 1965. Special features: audio commentary from 2001 by film historian Peter Cowie ; new introduction to the film by Cowie ; over eighty minutes of additional material from the Tokyo Games, with a new introduction by Cowie ; archival interviews with director director Kon Ichikawa ; new documentary about Ichikawa featuring interviews with camera operator Masuo Yamaguchi, longtime Ichikawa collaborator Chizuko Osaka, and the director's son Tatsumi Ichikawa ; new interview with restoration producer Adrian Wook ; trailers ; an essay by film scholar James Quandt.