The Complete Tokyo 1964 Olympics Film | Olympic History

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The official Olympic film of the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games in it's entirety is now here on the official Olympic KZbin channel.
As Tokyo is named as the host city of the 2020 Olympic Games we look back at the last time the Japanese capital presented the global sporting event in 1964.
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[@otaki8796]

私の母は円谷選手に電車の中であった時のことをいつも話してくれました。姑と喧嘩し電車で泣いてるとき心配そうに何度も顔を見る人がいた、それが円谷選手だったし、そういう優しい心の持ち主だったと。謹んでご冥福をお祈り申し上げます。

[@nemofiria1517]

映画監督、市川昆さんが撮ると こんな映像になるのか、、 人体の動きや息遣いを近くに感じるようでとても美しい。

[@pavlosta7173]

girisha

[@zargonthemagnificent330]

This is a very important sports documentary movie, and arguably one of the best sports films of all time. The first time slow motion close-ups of athletes had been used, the director Kon Ichikawa focuses much more on the atmosphere and drama of the games, the human side of the athletes and the spectators, rather than merely on the results or the winners . This movie broke new ground in the filming of sports events and it set filming standards that we now take for granted, with many beautiful and atmospheric shots. Interestingly,. the world famous film director Akira Kurosawa was originally hired by the Japanese government to direct this movie, but when he demanded total artistic control over the opening and closing Olympic ceremonies, he was dismissed and Ichikawa was appointed as director in his place.

[@shean333ful]

Very touching and beautiful photography!

[@TheGudeGym]

It’s very annoying

[@zargonthemagnificent330]

@@TheGudeGym Annoying? How does it annoy you?

[@TheGudeGym]

@@zargonthemagnificent330 I want to see the full action of the performance not just a tight slow motion zoom in on their face or other body part. He doesn't even show the winner often times.

[@zargonthemagnificent330]

@@TheGudeGym It's not intended as a simple sports show like on TV, it's a documentary movie. It's sport as art, not sport as a news clip.

[@sammysadventure5468]

I got goosebumps watching this! What a beautiful film from a time when the Olympics was reserved for honest amateurs. Thank you for sharing!

[@booklover3959]

Perfectly put. I think the hair on my arms was standing up....ha ha ha. This film is just so special.

[@DelSevenNine]

And what makes the competitors of today 'dis-honest'?

[@Nairuulagch]

History teaches re calibrates us.

[@MrJm323]

"....when the Olympics was reserved for honest amateurs." There's no such thing as an "honest amateur" in totalitarian states such as the Soviet Union (or the People's Republic of China). They were slave athletes who trained full time and had everything provided to them by the State. But, I agree, it is a beautiful film.

[@rogerc23]

I started crying during the parade of nations. Reminded me so much of when nations mattered and their wasn’t so much globalization

[@inkedguy201]

My father was Harold Thompson Mann, the backstroker in the I.M.medley. (1:15:08) I recently discovered this priceless footage, and was both overjoyed and overwhelmed. He was the kindest man you could ever meet or know, always a smile on his face and always in a good mood. He went on to practice internal medicine as a physician in Richmond, Virginia where I grew up. Years later I am now in San Francisco working in a profession I’ve been in since graduating college. (I’m 39) I owe so much to him for the inspiration, determination and kindness needed to succeed in life. He passed away several years back in Massachusetts, where he moved to retire but could never shake the love of practicing medicine. He worked shifts up until his leaving at age 76. Seeing this brings both tears and a smile, I’m not sad, but rather nostalgic for growing up with an amazing person who told my twin brother and I we could do anything we put our minds to. While of course there are limitations on that mantra, it was a good one to live by. Thank you to the uploader, for allowing me to both see and remember my father Harold Mann in this deeply meaningful way. ~ James Mann

[@elainekerslake6865]

I was a young backstroke swimmer in the sixties. I remember your father being the first swimmer under 60 secs . He did it in a relay 1960 Olympics Rome. I have his photograph in my Guinness book of records 1964. Famous athlete in those days.

[@raba2d723]

ok, but did he win the fastest walker race?

[@michatracz3766]

but this is girl at 1:15:08

[@LonnieBenoist]

respect to your father

[@Thekidyusuke]

This the best quality video from 1964 I’ve ever seen

[@myweightliftingcoach8494]

I have watched parts of this over and over. It shows sport in all its transcendence - physical, spiritual and emotional. This documentary defies description. Nothing else like it.

[@toml.1408]

Outstanding musical score. Gold medal performance and fantastic filming.

[@ChikoLindox3]

that film is amazing , quality perfect.

[@iii0722]

ichikawa's film of the 1964 summer games. many close ups-shots of player's faces of moment..etc. incredible film..!

[@marguskiis7711]

VERY influential

[@MontagZoso]

This is awesome! Love the vintage footage of the torch being carried through all the cities and the athletes walking onto the field. Thank you, Olympic channel for these films, they are terrific.

[@afonsomfneto]

The local Games organization even made a shorter version of the film, but it was Ichikawa's original cut that became a hallmark of cinema and his career - for "Tokyo Olympics" he won a Bafta, the British Oscar, another highlight in a career that, before, had already been marked by the Cannes jury prize for "Kagi". The documentary was also, for decades, a box office record in the country.

[@missingmochigumanofficial]

The cinematography in this is LEGIT and superior to the other Olympic movies I've skimmed.

[@anniemihn]

Olympic ideals made sense in those days. They were all amateur athlets competing peacefully for their countries and to prove themselves. No sporting brands on their uniforms whatsoever. The barefoot gold medalist Abebe Bikila, the united German team, Americans with their shades and cowboy hats followed by smiling Soviet Union athlets waving their red handkerchiefs at the height of the Cold War. And last but not least, the Japanese finally overcoming the scars of the tragic war. Kon Ichikawa in his well-known greatness and talent, captured it all. This is pure art, pure cinema.

[@SMGJohn]

+Sonia A. The 1964 and 1980 Olympics are my favourites, but in both Olympics there were political issues the first one was GANEFO and second was America and some of its allies boycotted their attendance, its a real shame but at least Asia, the third wold and the second world got along. Only the western first world acted like spoiled brats, a real shame but these games were amazing non the less.

[@josephlatshaw9291]

If you closely during the setup of the 100 meter the shoe is made by adidas.

[@mariaadamantidiscoutroubak6183]

@ Sonia A. Totally agree about the art facet of the film. Certain images from it have stayed with me to this day. I remember the close-up of an umbrella dripping with rain...

[@anniemihn]

Yes.

[@anniemihn]

But I don't think the athlets were paid for that.

[@aroxsimona8164]

I love watching the Parade of Nations

[@luiza3707]

てみをま。ま

[@mtmlt0513]

I don't really agree... I always skip foward for the Anthems.

[@juancastillonb]

Rosie Bonds Kreidler (born July 7, 1944) competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics for the United States in the Women's 80 metre hurdles. She finished in 1st place in the fourth heat of the first round (10.6 seconds), in 4th place in the first semifinal (10.8 seconds), and in 8th place in the final race (10.8 seconds) after crashing the second hurdle. After retiring from athletics two years later, she started a career in nursing. She is the sister of Bobby Bonds and the aunt of Barry Bonds, Ricky Bonds and Bobby Bonds Jr.. In 2002, the automobile in which she was traveling was rammed by a tractor-trailer, breaking her neck, back and ribs. The injury prevented her from continuing her work as a nurse. When her insurance stopped paying for physical therapy in 2005, Kreidler lived in her car and in the St. Mary's Center homeless shelter. She said she was too proud to ask family members for help. She then became an advocate for better care for seniors in Alameda County. source: the wiki.

[@rogerc23]

Race is at @59:07

[@ShimaJiro2205]

こんな素晴らしいことを地球人は、していたんです。忘れないで下さい。

[@Sincopare]

Incredible to watch this artistically-produced encapsulation of the drama of human competition. Poignant close-ups. Fascinating slow-motion. Humorous pieces. I saw inspiration here for directors who won academy awards. Food for the soul here in 2020 America.

[@user-hp5tr4yy2l]

ロゴがとんでもなくかっこいい。

[@ajtnk0707]

陛下の笑顔がとてもすばらしいです!!。

[@tejashbista1863]

at 16:31 seeing my Grandfather right behind the flag bearer of the nepalese team :O day made :O i miss you grandpa

[@ParantapSharma]

thats awesome...

[@longbui6929]

Great

[@leonjuraeee]

Are you sure

[@robmoody4710]

Which sport

[@endy2149]

WAS NOT BORAT ?? HEHEHE

[@calaf1816]

one of the very best documentary films.

[@marguskiis7711]

Imitated a lot

[@victorkreitner754]

Abebe Bakila was a truly amazing runner winning 12 gold medals in competiton, 2 of those from the 1960 and 1964 Olympics. Sadly 5 years later he became a quadrapeligic in a rollover car accident. He would die in 1973.

[@leanajo754]

THE greatest marathon runner ever. RIP, Mr. Bikila...

[@obunga9990]

This is way more better than Tokyo 2020

[@random-accessmemory9201]

Yes

[@kazumasasuziki5627]

当時小学4年生でした。バレーボール女子日本金メダルと閉会式に感動したことを思い出しました。

[@jslasher1]

Don't forget the excellent music score by Toshiro Mayuzumi, one of Japan's most famous composers.

[@philipc67]

Beautiful, poetic Olympic film. The glory of sport and peaceful competition, the physical and spiritual achievement, especially the grueling Marathon imagery. The film's final five minutes moved me to tears. Where are they now, those happy young men and women, coming together in brotherhood at the closing ceremony? ...and the fire returns to the Sun...for men may dream like this but once in four years...

[@cds327131]

Such an epic level of cinematography

[@ichibanpapasan]

A masterclass in film making. Incredible

[@user-xx8pv6ir8y]

24:15 What a beautiful acrobatics by F-86F!

[@mo_fanthe_magic_god7954]

lots of people here actually died now, watching these historical videos makes me feel happy and sad at the same time, time flies

[@user-xh8jh5rd5l]

今のオリンピックの開会式もいいけど、こっちの方が真のスポーツ大会の開会式って感じでいいな

[@lixibao]

Love this film!! So much different from just watching the Games in action live, like any other sport. Gives me a whole new appreciation for the Games. History captured and played back so beautifully. Now when i'm there in 2020 i will pay attention to the little things, how so many people from all over the world mingle and mix, the spectators and their cheers, the routines the athletes go through before going at it. I can't think of that many but this film captured it all so well.

[@terryfinch9471]

vale 2020

[@Psergiorivera]

WHen the birds were released, I lost when it when that girl screamed "OW, MY HAIR!" LOL!

[@Psergiorivera]

The first 10 minutes are insane.... I'm stoked to watch the rest!

[@hahatravelvlog6582]

Those marathon athletes, I am crying while seeing their foots after finished... Can you imagine??? In 1964, when their shoes is not so comfortable like what we have now....??? Respect to the athletes from the past....!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 And "SAYONARA" in the end, that was amazing... so touching... I believe Tokyo 1964 is the start point for Japan to be an amazing host for tourism after this event... Good job Japan, see you soon in 2021....!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Love from Indonesia....

[@jumavapo]

16:13 Nacho Calderon former goalkeeper, big star, a legend of mexican soccer. The second from left to right.

[@SMGJohn]

+Olympics Thank you for posting this remastered glory.

[@kevinhawkins940]

Now you can watch some Tokyo Olympics with a full stadium

[@AZWMKWofficialstarNinjaGeneral]

See you in Tokyo 2020

[@jessemuhozi5664]

yeah ill see you too

[@gettanned-foureyes2417]

Ave Mario !

[@goldeneve]

AZW512MKW (official 3 star Ninja General) hurricane andrew see you in 2021

[@KohyuNishimura]

See you in 2021

[@random-accessmemory9201]

COVID-19: Am I joke to you?

[@SeBazzyb]

Thankyou Olympic History KZbin Channel - This is listed on the "1001 Movies to See before You Die" book but in order to get a copy it would have been around £200 for a DVD!

[@urru66]

Extraordinaria la calidad del video en todo aspecto. Nuevamente, los años 60 dejan como anticuado y prehistórico cualquier video del 2021.

[@Kaputten320]

まだ運動会的な雰囲気があっていい。

[@benkyo5177]

This is the best movie i've ever seen 😭

[@09umeo]

小学２年生だった、ゴロゴロ道の聖火ランナーに日の丸降っていた記憶あり、周りは見事な田んぼだらけだった、牛がいた

[@mariaadamantidiscoutroubak6183]

I saw that film on its first release in Cairo, at the cinema Opera. My father, a veteran rowing athlete, took me to see it. I absolutely loved it and loved the Olympics ever since. I believe the camera style was also very advanced for the day. It's very interesting to watch it now and note the differences in almost every aspect of the Games.

[@iwasborntosurvive5396]

64년도 영상 퀄리티 실화냐.. 이정도로 리마스터링이된다고..?

[@keith2o9]

Tokyo 2020. Can't wait, the Olympics returns to Japan after 56 years. and some of these old venues will be reused for the 2020 Games. See You in Tokyo!!

[@liiisland2317]

Kee Lee see you in Tokyo 😀😀 I just need wacthing on TV

[@louisemuhozi2172]

My mom says we can save Japanesse money so we can go there to watch i will be 14 years old

[@rafcale1]

See you in Tokio!!! :)))

[@limelightraver5690]

Kee Lee Akira predicted it

[@dzemfixxaxn1824]

Kee Lee i love 💕 💕 Japan bro because ur country has produce great Technology, Cars and Bikes and it's the best country in Eastern Asia 4 me 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵

[@timjohnson5519]

Great footage of the races and the human side of this athletic performance.

[@bulouvusonawalowalo1711]

Watching this in 2021, admired the uniforms and the marching in of the athletes. Thank you Japan.

[@jasondonato65]

Parade of nations was so formal back then

[@ohgrijalva]

Fantastic document. Congratulations.

[@purwantiallan5089]

2021 during covid19 pandemic rewatching the classic olympic films.

[@mattchoge686]

The great Bekele inspired the whole continent in this win in marathon. Well deserved victory for Africa!

[@1melkt]

You mean the immortal Abebe Bikila?

[@KG1970.]

First athlete to go back to back in the Marathon

[@jameshutchins8965]

As a kid I remember saving my allowance to purchase a small B&W TV to wake up early enough to watch this Olympics everyday of broadcast. So beautiful. No showboating by the sprinters like today.

[@ariccua6101]

Slightly different from my DVD. 2020 is getting closer. Can't wait.

[@saanzacs]

Directed by the great Kon Ichikawa

[@user-zl3gq6wz3x]

本当は1940年に東京五輪が開催される予定だったけど、第二次世界大戦とか日中戦争とかで中止になったんだよね

[@anakonda13]

The foley art is hilarious, I love it! Especially the smoldering feet on the high and long jump.

[@jackwinton9617]

56 years later the games will be in this location of the video!! Tokyo 2020!!!!!!! Games of the XXXII Olympiad

[@runcaz7802]

Jack Winton : Yes, and I heard that Billy Mills is back to defend his 10,000 meter title.

[@IsZprAsGaminG]

50:38 Proud of Karunarathne as a fellow Sri Lankan and at the same time ashamed about how my country treated him and his family after his death. 😔❤

[@bbeloveth53bahtgad37]

I'm proud of Mr. Karananda too. I watch the clip of his inspiring participation in the race several times. I shared his story with my daughter and now she too is a fan.

[@konradbaumgarten6762]

What a great movie! Many interesting and rare scenes, for example the DC-6 and B707 shots. And nice to see the old Imperial Family in almost HD and coloured. Akihito (I didn't know he wore glasses) and Prince Hitachi are so young! :D

[@rowdyjman94]

I think you're talking about their uncle, because he wore glasses while he was alive, and their aunt is still alive in her 90s

[@akuno172]

12:37 they used the same music for the closing ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

[@dano332001]

Thank you very much for that... it's such a gift to all of us!

[@Psergiorivera]

I loved this movie. Everything about it. It's AMAZING.

[@jessemuhozi5664]

do yu have the olympic film dvd

[@joelg1290]

Wonderful video!

[@kenjimdotcom]

Hard to believe less than 20 years since Tokyo was flattened in WW2.

[@chipschannel9494]

Pax Americana .

[@mikedecarlo9057]

2:00:11 Zambia actually became independent that day!! They started the games as Northern Rhodesia

[@afonsomfneto]

A feature of this award-winning film, and that caught the attention, was that the 100 cameramen involved in the filming turned their cameras to the backstage of the Games, disqualified athletes, and volunteers who were always invisible, something rarely seen on TV broadcasts - these Olympics, in fact, they were the first to be televised around the world.

[@christianpriokusumo5319]

Here we go for Tokyo 2020! 🎱🎳⚾⛳🎾⚽🏀

[@shiymen5070]

Yeah, come on! 🎌🗾🗼

[@scottymac8888]

spectacular. so many amazing details & nuances. 2021 it'll have to be

[@user-hm1dv8rb5y]

貴重すぎる映像ですありがとうございます

[@websterscam]

We just saw the fastest 100 meters of all time,run by Bob Hayes,anchoring the 4 by 100 meter relay,timed at 8.6 seconds for his anchor leg on a moist dirt track.Even so the experts calculate this time to a 9.5 100 meters from a standing start,Hayes ran as fast as needbe to win.He had won 49 consecutive sprints coming into the Tokyo games,60 yds.100yds.100 meters,& won every race at Tokyo,100 meter dash gold,4 by 100 meter,gold.The fastest man ever to live.

[@WorldLeader12345]

Scot Armour Bolt runs a 9.58.

[@mstnkkoo6666]

リアルいだてん！ 開会式のきちっとした行進、素敵！

[@user-ib1vx5qy5o]

当時の日本は外国の人をあまり見たことがなかったからね、今と違う価値観があるんだね

[@funfun9996]

so cool that in less than 3 yrs the games will be back in Tokyo Japan for the summer 2020 games!

[@ErikMalkavian]

50:04 Here comes Billy Mills!!! His Epic come from behind victory in the Men's 10,000 Meter!

[@longbui6929]

I CAN'T WAIT TO OLYMPIC TOKYO 2020!!!

[@jamezkpal2361]

I never realized the awful conditions many of the athletes had to contend with at Olympic Stadium. As a former long jumper, for three men to long jump 8 meters in a swamp is almost as impressive to me as Beamon jumping nearly 9 meters at altitude.

[@sebastianrodriguez8668]

9:40 An astonishing frame

[@1014kerry]

wonderful show! loved the JSDF making the olympic rings!

[@Alexander_Snowden]

The same aerobatic team made the Olympic rings at the 2020 opening ceremony, too.

[@jdlaag]

What an astonishing work of Art! Kon Ichikawa you will always be remembered! Can't wait to Tokyo 2020!!!!

[@user-vg1iu9fm2i]

2020年のオリンピックは、現在世界中のアスリートによって行われています。

[@fabi0681]

当時の家の親は中学生だった。すごい画質だね。昭和天皇の元気な姿を見たときは感動した。今度の東京2020を楽しみに〜

[@maplemiles3381]

Six months away from Tokyo 2021 I'm so pumped

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

Tokyo 2020

[@jslasher1]

This is the unrestored print, which is full of digital noise and audio artefacts. Criterion will release the 2K restoration, as part of a boxed set, in the next few days.

[@vangmx]

Yeah, I was randomly watching videos on KZbin and noticed this was on the Olympics channel (considering it was out of print for a long time). Criterion recently released a big bluray box set of all the films and I'm sure their version will look so much better!

[@adelaidedupont9017]

And I'd wondered if National Olympic Committees would give that print to anyone who asked, like from a sporting organisation or a library or institutional loan?

[@momotaro6113]

See you in A.D. 2020 (NÉO)TOKYO ! ☝😆

[@seanhernandez2759]

See you in 2021

[@timdoyle8535]

Oscar Moore ran in the 10,000 what place did he finish..he was my college coach at Glassboro St. in 1973-74. along Bill Fritz...two of the finest men I ever meet.

[@ExodusPessoa]

Wow

[@naturalthing1]

You gotta love this girl at 1:00:34 Ikuko Yoda, she was something else. God bless her soul

[@adader]

God bless her Soul? She commit suicide, 2nd attempt.

[@noelsamson876]

The gymnastics footage is sublime

[@jslasher1]

A superb music score by Toshiro Mayuzumi, who also composed by music for "The Bible...In the Beginning", John Huston's mammoth roadshow film.

[@9999FIRE]

18:39 proud of Vietnam 😭

[@marimon2313]

2:04:23 クレジットに谷川俊太郎さん発見

[@sandraanne1490]

Malaysia 16.22 My Beloved Malaysia 💕💕💕 didn't expect they will sent that much athletes wowwww ... plus the opening ceremony looks so different then I mean the countrymen actually walk in synch n marching wowww salute ... nowadays the athlete walk in like a boss it's a mess 😂😂😂 .. USA 🇺🇸 team wow goosebumps

[@John-ed8iy]

1896 Athens, 1900 Paris, 1908 London, 1912 Stockholm, 1916 Berlin was canceled from World War I. 1920 Antwerp, 1924 Paris, 1928 Amsterdam, 1932 Los Angeles & 1936 Berlin, 1940 Tokyo & 1944 London has been canceled from World War II. 1948 London, 1952 Helsinki, 1956 Melbourne, 1960 Rome & 1964 Tokyo.

[@booklover3959]

They had so much class back then. This is truly awe inducing. When they are hammering at the starting blocks for the sprints the ambience and music reminds me of Chariots of Fire. I wonder if they were influenced by this film of Tokyo. I wish the human race would reach the goal of the spirit of the Olympics of all nations coming together peaceably to aspire to and reach the human potential.

[@user-ep2xz7tw5y]

This year they are going to hold the Olympic Games in Tokyo after 56 years' absence. Not a few Japanese will watch Tokyo Olympic Games two times in their lives.

[@goldeneve]

能圓坊龍現 make 57 see you in 2021

[@user-ep2xz7tw5y]

昭和15年、東京で開催される筈だったオリンピックが戦争により中止となり、その24年後の昭和39年に開かれることになりました。戦後の高度経済成長を象徴する一大イベントだったと聞いております。2020年の東京オリンピックが楽しみです。

[@jerrybear6440]

Thank you so much....

[@LittleB2007]

スローと、どアップと、唐突なストップモーションと、あと効果音の入れ方が市川監督らしくてまるで八つ墓犬神家の獄門手毬唄