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The story

As the Tokyo Olympics usher in a wave of rapid modernisation, the residents of Third Street face new beginnings as Mutsuko becomes involved with a seemingly perfect young doctor who may not be all he appears, while Chagawa struggles with his stalled writing career and what it truly means to be a father to the boy he has raised as his own.

• #20th century
• #shitamachi
• #shōwa era (1926-89)
• #japan
• #based on manga
• #japanese economic miracle
• #tokyo, japan
• #1960s