After the scandals, the stadium controversy, the protests, the postponement, the corruption allegations, the colossal cost, the health fears, the heat and the hubris: what, really, was it all for?
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will go down in history as both one of the strangest and the most anticlimactic Games in living memory. It was a ?1.45 trillion ($11.3 billion) pageant that the general public couldn¡¯t attend, the greatest success of which ¡ª beyond the various records set and barriers broken ¡ª was that nothing really awful happened.
The task of making sense of it all has fallen to Naomi Kawase, whose official, two-part documentary opens in Japanese cinemas this month. ¡°Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo Side A¡± (what a title!) focuses on the experiences of the athletes and their entourages; ¡°Side B,¡± due for release in a few weeks¡¯ time, promises to reveal what was happening behind the scenes.
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