Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

📊 Series Specifications

Network NHK
Episode Runtime ~45 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 47
Original Language JA

Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story (2019)

⭐ 3.9 / 5 (5 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 47 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, War & Politics 📡 Ended
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'Rating Consensus & Critics'

Live Multi-Source
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MATCHCUT Members
– / 10
IMDb Audience
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TOMATOMETER Critics
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METASCORE Top Critics
7.8 / 10
TMDB (5)
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

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.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Before the Rising of the Sun
E5 Not Losing to the Rain
E8 Thousands of Enemies May Come
E9 Farewell, Siberian Railway
E10 A Midsummer Night's Dream
E11 One Hundred Years of Solitude
E21 The Cherry Orchard
E22 The Birth of Venus
E25 The Times They Are A-Changin'
E28 Run Across the Earth
E29 California Dreamin
E32 The Great Dictator
E33 Battle Without Honor or Humanity
E36 Maehata, Go For It