Screenplay: Shuntaro Tanikawa

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Abebe Bikila

Plot Ichikawa's cameras follow the 1964 Summer Olympics from opening to closing ceremonies. Sometimes he focuses on spectators, as athletes pass in a blur; sometimes he isolates a competitor; other times,...

Direction Jim Clark · Milos Forman · Kon Ichikawa · Claude Lelouch

Plot This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman,...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Mieko Takamine · Masao Kusakari · Kaoru Yumi

Direction Yoji Kuri

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Michael Redgrave

Plot Master film director, Kon Ichikawa (1915~2008), along with many of Japan's most important artists presents the treasures of one of the world's most beautiful cities, Kyoto, Japan Filmed at the...

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot Short experimental animated film by Yoji Kuri.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Renaud Verley · Ruriko Asaoka · Tetsuo Ishidate · Yôko Kosono

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Plot Tokyo Olympiad director Kon Ichikawa documents the 50th anniversary of the Koshien games.

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot A montage of scenes that describe how people can be as bad as animals.

Direction Shuntaro Tanikawa · Shuji Terayama

Cast Shuntaro Tanikawa · Shuji Terayama

Plot This remarkable compilation follows an exchange of video letters that took place between Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikawa in the months immediately preceding Terayama's death. It can be thought of...

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot The international version of Ni-hiki no Sanma that is colored, redrawn, and edited.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Isao Bitô · Tadao Futami · Kenichi Hagiwara · Reiko Inoue

Plot Three toseinin, low-class wanderers who follow the yakuza code, go from village to village ready to work or fight for anyone who will give them food and lodging.