Hiyokko

Premise

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 and characters

Leading cast

• Kanau Miyahara as Chiyoko Yatabe
• Yohei Okuda as Akira Matsushita
• Kasumi Arimura as Mineko Yatabe
• Ikko Furuya as Shigeru Yatabe
• Ikki Sawamura as Minoru Yatabe
• Honoka Matsumoto as Sumiko Nabatame
• Yoshino Kimura as Miyoko Yatabe
• Kazunobu Mineta as Muneo Koiwai

Supporting cast

• Rai Takahashi as Susumu Yatabe
• Yui Sakuma as Tokiko Sukegawa
• Michiko Hada as Kimiko Sukegawa
• Toshiya Tohyama as Shoji Sukegawa
• Kento Shibuya as Toyosaku Sukegawa
• Yuki Izumisawa as Mitsuo Sumitani
• Rie Shibata as Kiyo Sumitani
• Shinji Asakura as Masao Sumitani
• Hiroyuki Onoue as Taro Sumitani
• Satoru Matsuo as Jiro Mashiko
• Kanji Tsuda as Manabu Tagami
• Shizuyo Yamasaki as Shigeko Koiwai

Episodes

This series spans 2 seasons with 160 episodes.

Production

Release

References

1. The Movie Database (TMDB)
2. TVMaze
3. IMDb
4. Official Website
5. EpisodeTime Show Page