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?

Cast

Kasumi Arimura

Mineko Yatabe

K

Kanau Miyahara

Chiyoko Yatabe

Y

Yohei Okuda

Akira Matsushita

Ikko Furuya

Shigeru Yatabe

Ikki Sawamura

Minoru Yatabe

Honoka Matsumoto

Sumiko Nabatame

Yoshino Kimura

Miyoko Yatabe

Kazunobu Mineta

Muneo Koiwai

R

Rai Takahashi

Susumu Yatabe

Yui Sakuma

Tokiko Sukegawa

Michiko Hada

Kimiko Sukegawa

Toshiya Tohyama

Shoji Sukegawa

Kento Shibuya

Toyosaku Sukegawa

Yuki Izumisawa

Mitsuo Sumitani

Rie Shibata

Kiyo Sumitani

S

Shinji Asakura

Masao Sumitani

Hiroyuki Onoue

Taro Sumitani

Satoru Matsuo

Jiro Mashiko

Kanji Tsuda

Manabu Tagami

Shizuyo Yamasaki

Shigeko Koiwai

Seasons

160 episodes

Season 12017 · 156 episodes

Season 22019 · 4 episodes