Hiyokko - Season 2
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?
Year: 2019
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Studio: NHK
Director:
Cast: Kasumi Arimura
Crew: Maiko Itagaki (Producer)
First Air Date: Apr 03, 2017
Last Air date: Mar 28, 2019
Season: 2 Season
Episode: 160 Episode
Runtime: 15 minutes
IMDb: 8.20/10 by 5.00 users
Popularity: 8.2019
Language: Japanese
Keyword : asadora, shōwa era (1926-89)
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