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

Overview

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.

Details

Cast

Kantarô Nakamura

Sadawo Abe

Haruka Ayase

Toma Ikuta

Hana Sugisaki

Kento Nagayama

Ryo Katsuji

Yutaka Takenouchi

Shido Nakamura

Charlotte Kate Fox