Title | UNFINISHED GAMES |
Brand | NOMURA HOLDINGS, INC. |
Product / Service | TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES GOLD SECURITIES PARTNER |
Category | A03. Casting |
Entrant | ENJIN Tokyo, JAPAN |
Idea Creation | ENJIN Tokyo, JAPAN |
Production | TAIYO KIKAKU CO., LTD. Tokyo, JAPAN |
Name | Company | Position |
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Shiro Nomura | ENJIN TOKYO | CREATIVE DIRECTOR |
Mitsuhito Sato | ENJIN TOKYO | COPY WRITER+PRODUCER |
Motohiro Kasahara | ENJIN TOKYO | Senior Account Director |
Sena Miyazaki | ENJIN TOKYO | ACCOUNT SERVICE |
Kazuma Kitada | TOKYO / Taiyo Kikaku | DIRECTOR |
Tetsuro Hirano | Freelance | CINEMATOGRAPHER |
Shuhei Hosokawa | Taiyo Kikaku | MOVIE PRODUCER |
Yuichiro Kon | Taiyo Kikaku | PRODUCTION MANAGER |
Yusuke Hashimoto | Freelance | PHOTOGRAPHER |
Tomohiro Takahashi | Freelance | LIGHT MAN |
Takayuki Mitsuizumi | STAR BOY | ART DESIGNER |
Kumi Nakada | Sports Biz | CAST |
Masami Fujisawa | Freelance | STYLIST |
Risa Kayahara | Freelance | HAIR & MAKE |
Taeko Yoshii | Freelance | INTERVIEWER |
Yusuke Wakita | Digital Egg | OFFLINE EDITOR |
Ben Conkey | TOKYO | COLORLIST |
Noriyo Suzuki | Freelance | COMPOSITOR |
Takayuki Sasaki | Media City | ONLINE EDITOR |
Toshiharu Kawai | Media City | MIXER |
Erik Reiff | audioforce | MUSIC PRODUCER |
Kenny Dalls | audioforce | MUSIC PRODUCER |
R J | audio force | COMPOSER |
Ashita Iju | AUR Inc. | PR PLANNER |
Kazushige Takebayashi | SHA inc. | ART DIRECTOR |
Natsuki Isa | SHA inc. | DESIGNER |
Our video, Unfinished Games, looks at the life of a female athlete devoted to winning an Olympic gold medal. Kumi Nakada is currently the coach of the Japan women's national volleyball team. She became a member of the 1980 Japanese Olympic team at the age of 15 and participated at the next three Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Seoul and Barcelona. While her career has been brilliant, various setbacks prevented her from fulfilling her dream of winning an Olympic gold medal. In the video, she talks about the four games that transformed her life while walking through a museum-like space displaying large images from those games that evoke memories and strong emotions. Still devoted to volleyball, this indomitable female athlete continues her quest on the road to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Once known around the world as the Witches of the Orient, the Japan women's national volleyball team brilliantly won medals at four consecutive Olympics: a gold medal in Tokyo (1964), silver medal in Mexico City (1968), silver medal in Munich (1972) and gold medal in Montreal (1976). Expectations were so high that even silver medals disappointed fans. Since earning a bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, however, the team has failed to win any Olympic medals. Japanese are now desperate to see their female volleyball team win a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Coach Kumi Nakada debuted as a player in 1980 just before the team’s slump began. All of her 1980 teammates had previously won gold medals, so it was natural for her to pursue one for herself.
When asked which games were turning points in her life, Japan women's national volleyball team coach Kumi Nakada told us the first was her debut as a member of the Japan national team in 1980; the second was the 1988 Seoul Olympics game against Peru, where she felt responsible for her team’s loss; the third was the 1992 Barcelona Olympics loss against Brazil, which convinced her to retire as a player; the fourth was the 2017 World Grand Prix victory over Brazil, which gave her confidence as a national team coach. Strolling past photos from these games, she recounts her memories with more feeling than a conventional interview could evoke. She encounters herself at various stages in life, from the age of 15 onward and finally arrives at a current photo, where she ponders the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and her team.