Filmmaker Yamazaki likely to direct 2020 Tokyo Olympic ceremonies

Pop singer Ringo Sheena and traditional Japanese kyogen actor Nomura Mansai are also likely to join the group, the sources added.

Wheeling out the big guns........

Best of luck to him. Hope he comes up with something entertaining to a global audience.

No matter how good, it would be hard to beat Queen Elizabeth parachuting into the opening ceremonies venue with James Bond.

Getting a guy who directed "The Eternal Zero" to represent the world? Hmmm... In any case, how's a movie director going to do the opening games? Choreographer or cinematographer I can understand, but an anime film "director" or the director of a couple of corny movies not known at all outside Japan?