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.
Before the Rising of the Sun
Botchan
Adventure World
Manneken Pis
Not Losing to the Rain
Oedo Nihonbashi
The Odd Couple
Thousands of Enemies May Come
Farewell, Siberian Railway
A Midsummer Night's Dream
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Full Sun
Resurrection
A New World
Ah, Marriage
Berlin Wall
Two for the Road
Liebestraum
Hakone Ekiden
One Way Ticket
The Cherry Orchard
The Birth of Venus
The Good Earth
The Sower
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Born To Run
Transition
Run Across the Earth
California Dreamin
The Gold Rush
Top of the World
The Great Dictator
Battle Without Honor or Humanity
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Olympia
Maehata, Go For It
The Last Supper
Episode 38
Episode 39
Episode 40
Episode 41
Episode 42
Episode 43
Episode 44
Episode 45
Episode 46
Episode 47
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Taikouki
Akō Rōshi
Life of a Flower
Pride
Blue Water High
Yellow Taped Newswoman
Fight! Bookstore Girl
The Wonder Years
Papa & Daddy
Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence
Hana Kimi
Water Boys
Ping Pong the Animation
Professional Secrecy
Master
The Coolest World
Kita Regu
Sports Night
Scully