Hiyokko
ひよっこ
Rating: 8.2 · 2017 · Drama · Japan · 2 sns
Description
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?
Information
- Original title
- ひよっこ
- Year
- 2017
- Genre
- Drama
- Country
- Japan
- Seasons
- 2
- TMDB
- 8.2
- IMDb
- 8.2
Director
Cast
- Kasumi Arimura — Mineko Yatabe
- Kanau Miyahara — Chiyoko Yatabe
- Yohei Okuda — Akira Matsushita
- Ikko Furuya — Shigeru Yatabe
- Ikki Sawamura — Minoru Yatabe
- Honoka Matsumoto — Sumiko Nabatame
- Yoshino Kimura — Miyoko Yatabe
- Kazunobu Mineta — Muneo Koiwai
- 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
- Shinji Asakura — Masao Sumitani
- Hiroyuki Onoue — Taro Sumitani
- Satoru Matsuo — Jiro Mashiko
- Kanji Tsuda — Manabu Tagami
- Shizuyo Yamasaki — Shigeko Koiwai