Hiyokko

*Hiyokko*
Hiyokko
	Promotional poster
Original title	ひよっこ
Genre	Drama
Written by	Yoshikazu Okada
Directed by	Hiroshi Kurosaki; Tadashi Tanaka; Takeshi Fukuoka
Starring	Kasumi Arimura; Ikki Sawamura; Yoshino Kimura; Kazunobu Mineta; Michiko Hada; Rie Shibata; Hitomi Satō; Yui Sakuma; Yūki Izumisawa; Satoru Matsuo; Kanji Tsuda; Ichirō Yatsui; Hayato Isomura; Emi Wakui; Kuranosuke Sasaki; Ikkō Furuya; Nobuko Miyamoto;
Narrated by	Akemi Masuda
Opening theme	"Wakai Hiroba" by Keisuke Kuwata
Composer	Akira Miyagawa
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	156
Production
Producer	Hiroshi Kashi
Running time	15 minutes
Production company	NHK
Original release
Network	NHK
Release	April 3 –; September 30, 2017
Related
	Hiyyoko 2 (Special drama)

Hiyokko (ひよっこ) is a Japanese television drama series and the 96th asadora series, following Beppinsan. It was premiered on April 3, 2017, and ended on September 30, 2017.

Plot

Mineko Yatabe is a teenager living in a very rural area of Ibaraki Prefecture in 1964, the year of the Tokyo Olympics. Her father, Minoru, is a farmer, and often goes to Tokyo to do extra work for the family. This time, however, he goes missing. Mineko travels to Tokyo to find him, and begins to work at a small electronics factory while continuing her search. She makes many friends there, but the factory goes bankrupt and she is left unemployed. Luckily, she is hired by Suzuko Makino as a waitress at her restaurant, the Suzufuri-tei, which happened to be her father's favorite eatery. She lives at the boarding house next door, in which live a variety of people, from manga artists to college students. Mineko falls in love with a college student, Junichirō Shimatani, but they part when his father forces him to marry to save the family business. Mineko becomes friends with the movie star, Setsuko Kawamoto, who after learning of Mineko's father, reveals that Minoru has been living in her apartment all along. He lost his memory in a fight and Setsuko took him in. Mineko returns Minoru to his family in Ibaraki. Mineko then falls in love with Hidetoshi Maeda, one of the junior chefs at the Suzufuri-tei. She also helps Setsuko, when Setsuko needs to flee from the press after her aunt and uncle misappropriated her money.

Cast

Main character

Kasumi Arimura as Mineko Yatabe

Oku-Ibaraki village

Yatabe family

Ikkō Furuya [ja] as Shigeru Yatabe, Mineko's grandfather
Ikki Sawamura as Minoru Yatabe, Mineko's father
Yoshino Kimura as Miyoko Yatabe, Mineko's mother
Kanau Miyahara [ja] as Chiyoko Yatabe, Mineko's sister
Rai Takahashi [ja] as Susumu Yatabe, Mineko's brother
Kazunobu Mineta as Muneo Koiwai, Mineko's uncle
Shizuyo Yamasaki [ja] as Shigeko Koiwai, Muneo's wife and Mineko's aunt

Sukegawa family

Yui Sakuma as Tokiko Sukegawa, Mineko's childhood friend and classmate
Michiko Hada as Kimiko Sukegawa, Tokiko's mother
Toshiya Tōyama [ja] as Shōji Sukegawa, Tokiko's father
Kento Shibuya [ja] as Toyosaku Sukegawa, Tokiko's brother

Sumitani family

Yūki Izumisawa [ja] as Mitsuo Sumitani, Mineko's childhood friend and classmate
Rie Shibata as Kiyo Sumitani, Mitsuo's mother
Shinji Asakura [ja] as Masao Sumitani, Mitsuo's father
Hiroyuki Onoue as Tarō Sumitani, Mitsuo's brother

Others

Satoru Matsuo as Jirō Mashiko, a school bus conductor
Kanji Tsuda as Manabu Tagami, a high school teacher

Tokyo people

Suzufuri-tei

Nobuko Miyamoto as Suzuko Makino, the shop owner
Kuranosuke Sasaki as Shōgo Makino, the chef
Hitomi Satō as Takako Asakura, the hall clerk
Ichiro Yatsui [ja] as Kenji Igawa
Hayato Isomura as Hidetoshi Maeda

Mukoujima Radio Factory

Emi Wakui as Aiko Nagai
Fujiko Kojima as Sachiko Akiba
Yūki Yagi [ja] as Yūko Natsui
Honoka Matsumoto [ja] as Sumiko Nabatame
Ryōko Fujino as Toyoko Kanehira

Others

Ryo Ryusei as Masayoshi Watahiki
Kayoko Shiraishi as Tomi Tachibana
Ryoma Takeuchi as Junichirō Shimatani
Kavka Shishido as Sanae Kusaka
Koudai Asaka [ja; es] as Yūji Tsubouchi
Amane Okayama as Keisuke Nitta
Yūji Miyake [ja] as Ichirō Kashiwagi
Ken Mitsuishi as Gorō Fukuda
Tomoko Ikuta as Yasue Fukuda
Miho Shiraishi as Kuniko Takeuchi
Yūtaro Furutachi [ja] as Yasuharu Kashiwagi
Satoru Saitou [ja] as Zenzou Abe
Sairi Ito as Saori Abe
Haruka Shimazaki as Yuka Makino
Miho Kanno as Setsuko Kawamoto
Kai Inowaki as Yudai Takashima

Reception

The series was a ratings success, averaging 20.4% over the length of the series, with ratings improving as the show progressed.^[1]

References

^ "ひよっこ：記録にも記憶にも残る作品に視聴率を分析 - 毎日新聞". 毎日新聞 (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2018.

External links

Official website (in Japanese)
Hiyokko at IMDb

Preceded by Beppin-san	Asadora April 3, 2017 – September 30, 2017	Succeeded by Warotenka

[1] "ひよっこ：記録にも記憶にも残る作品に視聴率を分析 - 毎日新聞". 毎日新聞 (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2018.

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