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Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
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.
Seasons
- Season 1 — 47 episodes (January 6, 2019)
Cast
- Kantarô Nakamura as 金栗四三
- Sadao Abe as 田畑政治
- Haruka Ayase as 春野Suya
- Toma Ikuta as 三岛弥彦
- Hana Sugisaki as Shima
- Kento Nagayama as 野口源三郎
- Ryo Katsuji as 美川秀信
- Yutaka Takenouchi as 大森兵藏
- Shido Nakamura as 金栗实次
- Charlotte Kate Fox as 大森安仁子
- Kanji Furutachi as 可儿德
- Pierre Taki as 黑坂辛作
Details
- First aired
- January 6, 2019
- Episodes
- 47
- Genres
- Drama, War & Politics
- Network
- NHK
- Status
- Ended
- TMDB score
- 7.8 / 10 from 5 votes
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