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Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the event again in 2020. The first half tells the story of marathon runner Kanakuri Shiso, who became one of the first Japanese nationals to participate in the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912. The second half features Tabata Masaji, the coach who laid the foundations of Japanese swimming and helped bring the games to Tokyo for the first time in 1964.

Starring
Kantarô Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Ichiki Masae, Sadawo Abe, Haruka Ayase, Kankuro Kudo, Hitoshi One, Otomo Yoshihide, Toma Ikuta, Hana Sugisaki

Director
Ichiki Masae

Episodes

  • S1 E1 Before the Rising of the Sun
  • S1 E2 Botchan
  • S1 E3 Adventure World
  • S1 E4 Manneken Pis
  • S1 E5 Not Losing to the Rain
  • S1 E6 Oedo Nihonbashi
  • S1 E7 The Odd Couple
  • S1 E8 Thousands of Enemies May Come
  • S1 E9 Farewell, Siberian Railway
  • S1 E10 A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • S1 E11 One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • S1 E12 Full Sun
  • S1 E13 Resurrection
  • S1 E14 A New World
  • S1 E15 Ah, Marriage
  • S1 E16 Berlin Wall
  • S1 E17 Two for the Road
  • S1 E18 Liebestraum
  • S1 E19 Hakone Ekiden
  • S1 E20 One Way Ticket
  • S1 E21 The Cherry Orchard
  • S1 E22 The Birth of Venus
  • S1 E23 The Good Earth
  • S1 E24 The Sower
  • S1 E25 The Times They Are A-Changin'
  • S1 E26 Born To Run
  • S1 E27 Transition
  • S1 E28 Run Across the Earth
  • S1 E29 California Dreamin
  • S1 E30 The Gold Rush
  • S1 E31 Top of the World
  • S1 E32 The Great Dictator
  • S1 E33 Battle Without Honor or Humanity
  • S1 E34 226
  • S1 E35 Olympia
  • S1 E36 Maehata, Go For It
  • S1 E37 The Last Supper
  • S1 E38 Episode 38
  • S1 E39 Episode 39
  • S1 E40 Episode 40
  • S1 E41 Episode 41
  • S1 E42 Episode 42
  • S1 E43 Episode 43
  • S1 E44 Episode 44
  • S1 E45 Episode 45
  • S1 E46 Episode 46
  • S1 E47 Episode 47

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Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

Drama War & Politics

Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the event again in 2020. The first half tells the story of marathon runner Kanakuri Shiso, who became one of the first Japanese nationals to participate in the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912. The second half features Tabata Masaji, the coach who laid the foundations of Japanese swimming and helped bring the games to Tokyo for the first time in 1964.

Information

Released
2019
Runtime
0 hr 45 min