Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
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Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story (2019)

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45 min

Episode

06 Jan 2019

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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.

Keywords

sports
slice of life
tokyo, japan
sports drama
shōwa era (1926-89)
taiga
olympics
great kantō earthquake
disaster aftermath
tokyo olympics
post-war reconstruction

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