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.

• Masae IchikiDirector
• Tsuyoshi InoueDirector
• Kankuro KudoWriter
• Yoshihide OtomoOriginal Music Composer

• Kantarô Nakamura金栗四三
• Sadao Abe田畑政治
• Haruka Ayase春野Suya
• Toma Ikuta三岛弥彦
• Hana SugisakiShima
• Kento Nagayama野口源三郎
• Ryo Katsuji美川秀信
• Yutaka Takenouchi大森兵藏
• Shido Nakamura金栗实次
• Charlotte Kate Fox大森安仁子
• Kanji Furutachi可儿德
• Pierre Taki黑坂辛作