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.
as 金栗四三
as 田畑政治
as 春野Suya
as 三岛弥彦
as Shima
as 野口源三郎
as 美川秀信
as 大森兵藏
as 金栗实次
as 大森安仁子
as 可儿德
as 黑坂辛作
as 永井道明
as 池部几江
as 嘉納治五郎
as 古今亭志生
as 小梅
as 本庄
as 吉冈信敬
as 知惠
as 美津子
as 美浓部孝藏
as 三岛弥太郎
as 三岛和歌子
as 中沢临川
as 福田源蔵
as Azuma Ryotaro [Doctor]
as 村田富江
as 田畑庄子
as Gorin
as Chii-chan
