Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story (2019)

Scripted TV Show
Audience Score
77
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.
DirectorsHitoshi OneNaoki Watanabe

TV Show Details

Air Date:January 6th, 2019

Last Air Date:November 24th, 2019

Network:NHK
Status:Ended
Original Language:Japanese
Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story on the Web:Official Website
TV Show Tags:
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