About this season
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.
Episodes (47)
1. Before the Rising of the Sun
Aired 6 January 2019 • 45 min
2. Botchan
Aired 13 January 2019 • 45 min
3. Adventure World
Aired 20 January 2019 • 45 min
4. Manneken Pis
Aired 27 January 2019 • 45 min
5. Not Losing to the Rain
Aired 3 February 2019 • 45 min
6. Oedo Nihonbashi
Aired 10 February 2019 • 45 min
7. The Odd Couple
Aired 17 February 2019 • 45 min
8. Thousands of Enemies May Come
Aired 24 February 2019 • 45 min
9. Farewell, Siberian Railway
Aired 3 March 2019 • 45 min
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Aired 10 March 2019 • 45 min
11. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Aired 17 March 2019 • 45 min
12. Full Sun
Aired 24 March 2019 • 45 min
13. Resurrection
Aired 31 March 2019 • 45 min
14. A New World
Aired 7 April 2019 • 45 min
15. Ah, Marriage
Aired 14 April 2019 • 45 min
16. Berlin Wall
Aired 21 April 2019 • 45 min
17. Two for the Road
Aired 28 April 2019 • 45 min
18. Liebestraum
Aired 5 May 2019 • 45 min
19. Hakone Ekiden
Aired 12 May 2019 • 45 min
20. One Way Ticket
Aired 19 May 2019 • 45 min
21. The Cherry Orchard
Aired 26 May 2019 • 45 min
22. The Birth of Venus
Aired 2 June 2019 • 45 min
23. The Good Earth
Aired 9 June 2019 • 45 min
24. The Sower
Aired 16 June 2019 • 45 min
25. The Times They Are A-Changin'
Aired 23 June 2019 • 45 min
26. Born To Run
Aired 30 June 2019 • 45 min
27. Transition
Aired 7 July 2019 • 45 min
28. Run Across the Earth
Aired 14 July 2019 • 45 min
29. California Dreamin
Aired 21 July 2019 • 45 min
30. The Gold Rush
Aired 28 July 2019 • 45 min
31. Top of the World
Aired 4 August 2019 • 45 min
32. The Great Dictator
Aired 11 August 2019 • 45 min
33. Battle Without Honor or Humanity
Aired 18 August 2019 • 45 min
34. 226
Aired 25 August 2019 • 45 min
35. Olympia
Aired 1 September 2019 • 45 min
36. Maehata, Go For It
Aired 8 September 2019 • 45 min
37. The Last Supper
Aired 15 September 2019 • 45 min
38. Episode 38
Aired 22 September 2019 • 45 min
39. Episode 39
Aired 29 September 2019 • 45 min
40. Episode 40
Aired 6 October 2019 • 45 min
41. Episode 41
Aired 13 October 2019 • 45 min
42. Episode 42
Aired 20 October 2019 • 45 min
43. Episode 43
Aired 27 October 2019 • 45 min
44. Episode 44
Aired 3 November 2019 • 45 min
45. Episode 45
Aired 10 November 2019 • 45 min
46. Episode 46
Aired 17 November 2019 • 45 min
47. Episode 47
Aired 24 November 2019 • 45 min