Hiyokko
The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to Tokyo to work in order to earn extra money. However, her life completely changes when her father does not come back for the New Year. Mineko asks her family to let her go to Tokyo to find him and promises to send money home. In the autumn of 1964, she and two childhood friends Tokiko and Mitsuo are hired to start working at a small factory in Tokyo’s working class neighborhood. After work each day, Mineko searches for her father and gets disheartened at times. Mineko overcomes challenges and starts to lay down roots in Tokyo as she experiences many meetings and farewells amid the laughter and tears with regulars, people of the shopping street, friends, and colleagues. But will she be able to find her father?
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Kasumi Arimura
Mineko Yatabe · 160 eps
Kanau Miyahara
Chiyoko Yatabe · 156 eps
Yohei Okuda
Akira Matsushita · 156 eps
Ikko Furuya
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Ikki Sawamura
Minoru Yatabe · 156 eps
Honoka Matsumoto
Sumiko Nabatame · 156 eps
Yoshino Kimura
Miyoko Yatabe · 156 eps
Kazunobu Mineta
Muneo Koiwai · 156 eps
Rai Takahashi
Susumu Yatabe · 156 eps
Yui Sakuma
Tokiko Sukegawa · 156 eps
Michiko Hada
Kimiko Sukegawa · 156 eps
Toshiya Tohyama
Shoji Sukegawa · 156 eps
Kento Shibuya
Toyosaku Sukegawa · 156 eps
Yuki Izumisawa
Mitsuo Sumitani · 156 eps
Rie Shibata
Kiyo Sumitani · 156 eps
Shinji Asakura
Masao Sumitani · 156 eps
Hiroyuki Onoue
Taro Sumitani · 156 eps
Satoru Matsuo
Jiro Mashiko · 156 eps
Kanji Tsuda
Manabu Tagami · 156 eps
Shizuyo Yamasaki
Shigeko Koiwai · 156 eps
