Still Life

“You keep that,” said my dad. It was a copper medal commemorating the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, which were held before I was born. The second Tokyo Olympics was planned to take place 56 years after the first, in 2020. But the Covid-19 pandemic broke out at the start of the year, and the Games were rescheduled for 2021. In Japan, where the law does not allow lockdowns, states of emergency were repeatedly declared in the major cities. At present, with three months to go before the Games are due to start, the majority of Japanese citizens are still unvaccinated, while the Japanese government’s line is that the Olympics will go ahead. This short documentary series is intended to allow us in future to look back on the once-in-a-lifetime year of the planned Tokyo Olympics. | Latest update: March 04 2022