Sensation of the Century

1966 2h 36m JA

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★5.0TMDB · 5★6IMDB · 42

Documentary

Synopsis

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A documentary covering the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. It consists primarily of footage edited from the documentary TOKYO OLYMPIAD, directed by Kon Ichikawa.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Hiroharu Maeda
Writers: Hiroharu Maeda, Tatsuji Yamagishi
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 156 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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60 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 6

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Part of the "100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 6

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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IMDB entry: tt7262782 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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6 / 6

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Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Hiroharu Maeda directs. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Clocks in at 156 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
260 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5IMDB entry: tt7262782 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 156 min · 2h 36m
Status: Released
Original language: JA
IMDB: Sensation of the Century (1966)
IMDB rating: 6/10 · 42 votes
MPAA: Not Rated

Part of

100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012

Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”: Jesse Owens shattering world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean-Claude Killy dominating the Grenoble slopes in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the Games’ first women’s marathon in Los Angeles in 1984.