Shots From the Canon #4: ‘Tokyo Olympiad’ (Kon Ichikawa, 1965)

Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.

With movies like Leviathan, um, making waves these days, it’s become fashionable to describe a documentary as “immersive.” But almost 50 years ago, Kon Ichikawa released Tokyo Olympiad, a masterful film that pushes past immersive into someth…