Hiyokko

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.

• Kasumi Arimura as Mineko Yatabe

• {{ill|Ikkō Furuya|ja|古谷一行}} as Shigeru Yatabe, Mineko's grandfather
• Ikki Sawamura as Minoru Yatabe, Mineko's father
• Yoshino Kimura as Miyoko Yatabe, Mineko's mother
• {{ill|Kanau Miyahara|ja|宮原和}} as Chiyoko Yatabe, Mineko's sister
• {{ill|Rai Takahashi|ja|高橋來}} as Susumu Yatabe, Mineko's brother
• Kazunobu Mineta as Muneo Koiwai, Mineko's uncle
• {{ill|Shizuyo Yamasaki|ja|山崎静代}} as Shigeko Koiwai, Muneo's wife and Mineko's aunt

• Yui Sakuma as Tokiko Sukegawa, Mineko's childhood friend and classmate
• Michiko Hada as Kimiko Sukegawa, Tokiko's mother
• {{ill|Toshiya Tōyama|ja|遠山俊也}} as Shōji Sukegawa, Tokiko's father
• {{ill|Kento Shibuya|ja|渋谷謙人}} as Toyosaku Sukegawa, Tokiko's brother

• {{ill|Yūki Izumisawa|ja|泉澤祐希}} as Mitsuo Sumitani, Mineko's childhood friend and classmate
• Rie Shibata as Kiyo Sumitani, Mitsuo's mother
• {{ill|Shinji Asakura|ja|朝倉伸二}} as Masao Sumitani, Mitsuo's father
• Hiroyuki Onoue as Tarō Sumitani, Mitsuo's brother

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

• Nobuko Miyamoto as Suzuko Makino, the shop owner
• Kuranosuke Sasaki as Shōgo Makino, the chef
• Hitomi Satō as Takako Asakura, the hall clerk
• {{ill|Ichiro Yatsui|ja|やついいちろう}} as Kenji Igawa
• Hayato Isomura as Hidetoshi Maeda

• Emi Wakui as Aiko Nagai
• Fujiko Kojima as Sachiko Akiba
• {{ill|Yūki Yagi|ja|八木優希}} as Yūko Natsui
• {{ill|Honoka Matsumoto|ja|松本穂香}} as Sumiko Nabatame
• Ryōko Fujino as Toyoko Kanehira

• Ryo Ryusei as Masayoshi Watahiki
• Kayoko Shiraishi as Tomi Tachibana
• Ryoma Takeuchi as Junichirō Shimatani
• Kavka Shishido as Sanae Kusaka
• {{ill|Koudai Asaka|ja|浅香航大|es|Kōdai Asaka}} as Yūji Tsubouchi
• Amane Okayama as Keisuke Nitta
• {{ill|Yūji Miyake|ja|三宅裕司}} as Ichirō Kashiwagi
• Ken Mitsuishi as Gorō Fukuda
• Tomoko Ikuta as Yasue Fukuda
• Miho Shiraishi as Kuniko Takeuchi
• {{ill|Yūtaro Furutachi|ja|古舘佑太郎}} as Yasuharu Kashiwagi
• {{ill|Satoru Saitou|ja|斉藤暁}} as Zenzou Abe
• Sairi Ito as Saori Abe
• Haruka Shimazaki as Yuka Makino
• Miho Kanno as Setsuko Kawamoto
• Kai Inowaki as Yudai Takashima

The series was a ratings success, averaging 20.4% over the length of the series, with ratings improving as the show progressed.{{cite web|title=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|url=https://mainichi.jp/articles/20171004/k00/00e/040/293000c|website=毎日新聞|accessdate=20 April 2018|language=ja-JP}}

• {{Official website|https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/bangumi/special/asadora/drama/d_096.html}} {{in lang|ja}}
• {{IMDb title|5847156}}

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Category:Asadora

Category:2017 Japanese television series debuts

Category:2017 Japanese television series endings

Category:Japanese television series about teenagers

Category:Television series set in 1964

Category:Television shows set in Ibaraki Prefecture

Category:Television shows set in Tokyo