Looking back in photos, the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony 8 famous scenes

This year's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will be held for the first time in Asian cities, the first postponement in history, and the first spectator.It wasn't the situation that everyone had predicted before 2020, but the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was finally held on July 23, 2021.

At the opening ceremony, His Majesty the Emperor, who became the honorary president of the Olympics, appeared.Although the entry of spectators except VIP was banned, the fireworks launched at the new national stadium designed by Kengo Kuma informed the people who looked at the night sky in Tokyo.

At the beginning of the ceremony, the life was lost due to the trend of the new Coronavirus, and the Mourning of the Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake in 2011 and the victims of the tsunami was wrapped in a bittersweet atmosphere.However, the event was rapidly excited by international athlete parades, performance in Japan, and breathing drones.

In the first performance, the video of digital art and projection mapping that Japan is good at, depicted the four seasons.Then, a nurse who is active at the forefront of the medical site and boxer Arisa Tsubata jogs on a running machine.After that, dancers and others were entangled in the rope complicatedly, expressing the heart of attacking the players, such as anxiety and conflict.

Next, singer -songwriter MISIA sings the national anthem, Kimigayo.Costumes like cotton sweets were impressive.After singing the national anthem, actors and dancers from carpenters appeared, and the labor song "Kiya), which has been handed down since the Edo period, is shown as an interpritative dance that combines tap dance and percussion.In the performance, a large wooden Olympic ring was completed.

Greek players, the birthplace of the Olympics, started the entry march at the top.Next, as the refugee players continued, players from each country entered the Aiueo order.It is also interesting that the theme song of games developed in Japan, such as "Final Fantasy", "Monster Hunter", and "Dragon Quest", was used in the entry march, and the orchestra was playing.

Then, Taekwondo's Pita Taufatoua, who decorated the show at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, took off the shirt, applied the oil moderately and returned with the Tonga flag.I was pleased.

Finally, I entered the French and Japanese players, where the next summer Olympics will be held in 2024.The flagship, Hachimura, and Yui Sasaki walked the top.When about 6,000 representative players in each country enter, the Olympic slogan "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Together (faster, higher, higher, stronger)" is listed, and "unity feeling behind the event.Was emphasized.

One of the highlights of the opening ceremony would be a drone as if it had escaped from a science fiction movie, formed a deep blue sphere over the stadium.The 1824 drones represented the Tokyo Olympics logo in a huge 3D and then turned into Earth.It was just a surprising moment.

After the impressive montage flows in line with John Lennon's "Imagine", Thomas Bach, Chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and Seiko Hashimoto, Chairman of the Organizational Committee, "hold the Olympics and participate.I gave a speech about "meaning".Bach pointed out the unprecedented challenges facing in the global pandemic, saying this is a humble experience.

After the speech, performers wearing blue and white clothing will be performed one after another with a live -action version of 50 competitions as live -action versions, and it is a humorous and rich wit like a Japanese TV game.With the performance, the atmosphere of the venue was relaxed.

Next, the camera shows a comedian troupe on the lighting engineer, which turns on and lit up the famous places in Tokyo and the famous places in Japan.Returning to the stadium, Kabuki actors Ebizo Ichikawa and Hiromi Uehara, a leading jazz pianist in Japan, showed a fusion of Japanese traditional performing arts and modern jazz.

Naomi Osaka, a tennis player, decorated the finale of the ceremony.Despite the various reactions to the Olympics and protests, Osaka went up the stairs and turned on the fire and turned to the audience, and the city seemed to have exhaled all at once.

It was a long way, but I couldn't help but expect the last fireworks to be the most historic Olympics in history.

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