The director has been visiting a hospital and its coronavirus ward to learn more. She has also been filming quarantine staff at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. During the pandemic, frontline workers have been working "harder than ever before -- even without enough sleep and food," she added. Kawase even sought out those set against holding the Games in the midst of a pandemic, and those distancing themselves from it, including a volunteer who resigned she does not elaborate on the reason why.
The Olympics may be an outlet for negativity, she suggests, rather than the source of it: "The feelings are anxiety that our life is threatened by the coronavirus, and frustration; frustration with the insufficient amount of information from the government.
These lead to questions about why such a big event should be held in Japan. A photograph dated July 17, , shows police officers blocking activists in Tokyo at a protest calling for the cancellation of the Olympic Games. In the footsteps of a legend. This search for truth, however uncomfortable, has the potential to ruffle feathers the International Olympic Committee commissioned Kawase. She wouldn't be the first Japanese filmmaker involved in an Olympics to do so.
The late Kon Ichikawa documented the Games, only to have his film disliked by the people who commissioned it , who used his footage to make another. While that film, "Sensation of the Century," was received politely, Ichikawa's impressionistic, daring "Tokyo Olympiad" is now hailed as one of the greatest films about sport ever made. Kon Ichikawa center directing a crew at the Tokyo Games of Credit: Alamy Stock Photo. Kawase, an admirer, describes it as a "very challenging experiment": both a record of the '64 Games and a narrative of the Games told through Ichikawa's eyes.
Like Ichikawa, Kawase said she is looking to focus on narrative in her documentary. With the Opening Ceremony for the last Olympic Games in Tokyo coming on July 23, here are some of the top Olympic-related films of all time.
Not too hard to wring emotion out of one of the biggest upsets in sports history, let alone Olympic history. Take an underdog group of U. She's one of those Olympians who doesn't even need a last name at this point. The life of one of the most infamous Olympians of all time is chronicled in this biopic, which earned Margot Robbie an Oscar nomination for playing Tonya Harding, the figure skater who rose from hardscrabble roots to become one of the best in the world before a fall from grace.
The film shows the aftermath from Harding's point of view of the violent attack on her Olympic rival, Nancy Kerrigan, and Harding's denial of a role in it. The Olympic comedy about the misadventures and triumph of the bobsled team from the tropical island of Jamaica making it to the Winter Olympics can't help but bring a smile.
It also features a great comic performance from the late John Candy. Just the theme music alone is iconic. Who hasn't run in slow motion and imagined crossing the finish line first while humming that music? The movie, which won four Oscars, still holds up. It's based on the story of a pair of athletes from the Olympics — Eric Liddell, a devout Christian from Scotland, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew determined to overcome prejudice.
The rare feature film about Olympic wrestling, this movie that received five Oscar nominations shows the dark side of the Olympic dream and the burning quest for gold. Du Pont is driven to bring glory to the U. It builds to a crescendo that ends tragically after Mark Schultz decides to leave du Pont's Team Foxcatcher. Ichikawa, who had made his name with two anti-war movies, The Burmese Harp and Fires on the Plain, ended up making one of the great sports films.
It won two Baftas, including best documentary. Only, the organising committee hated it. Karunananda became a celebrity, he was praised as the epitome of the Olympic spirit, even got to meet the emperor, but Ichikawa also gives over a chunk of the film which is cut from several versions to Ahmed Issa, the only competitor from Chad.
Ichikawa shows him training alone, eating alone, competing alone, and, at one point, walking the busy streets alone. Among the footage of the bubbling crowds, between all the bromides about how the Games bring people together, Issa looks lonely, lost and bewildered.
Ichikawa used a crew of camera operators, and five directors of photography, who shot over 70 hours of footage between them. They are making a film of these Games too.
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