Hiyokko (2017)

04/03/2017 (JP) • 15m

Drama

Overview

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?

Top Billed Cast

Kasumi Arimura

Mineko Yatabe

160 Episodes


Last Season

Season 2

2019 | 4 Episodes

Season 2 of Hiyokko premiered on March 25, 2019.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Scripted

Original Language

Japanese

Keywords

asadora

shōwa era (1926-89)

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