Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
TV
Type
2019
Year
1 Season
Seasons
★ 7.8
Rating
Drama / War & Politics
Genre
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.
Episodes
1. Before the Rising of the Sun
2. Botchan
3. Adventure World
4. Manneken Pis
5. Not Losing to the Rain
6. Oedo Nihonbashi
7. The Odd Couple
8. Thousands of Enemies May Come
9. Farewell, Siberian Railway
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream
11. One Hundred Years of Solitude
12. Full Sun
13. Resurrection
14. A New World
15. Ah, Marriage
16. Berlin Wall
17. Two for the Road
18. Liebestraum
19. Hakone Ekiden
20. One Way Ticket
21. The Cherry Orchard
22. The Birth of Venus
23. The Good Earth
24. The Sower
25. The Times They Are A-Changin'
26. Born To Run
27. Transition
28. Run Across the Earth
29. California Dreamin
30. The Gold Rush
31. Top of the World
32. The Great Dictator
33. Battle Without Honor or Humanity
34. 226
35. Olympia
36. Maehata, Go For It
37. The Last Supper
38. Episode 38
39. Episode 39
40. Episode 40
41. Episode 41
42. Episode 42
43. Episode 43
44. Episode 44
45. Episode 45
46. Episode 46
47. Episode 47
Cast

Kantarô Nakamura
金栗四三

Sadao Abe
田畑政治

Haruka Ayase
春野Suya

Toma Ikuta
三岛弥彦

Hana Sugisaki
Shima

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