TV show

Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

Name: Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
Genre: Drama, War & Politics
Released: 2019-01-06
Duration: 45 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: 中村勘九郎, 阿部サダヲ, 綾瀬はるか, Tōma Ikuta, 杉咲花

いだてん〜東京オリムピック噺〜

2019 45 min / per episode 1 season · 47 episodes

Drama War & Politics

78%

Audience score5 votes on TMDB

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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.