Shouwa Monogatari: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Showa Monogatari is a nostalgic slice-of-life show about a Japanese family in 1964, the year the Olympics came to Tokyo. The father Yuuzou owns a small machine shop where he and a co-worker create finely-tooled metal parts. Yuuzou has problems communicating with his three children -- an older son attending college, a teen-aged daughter discovering romance, and his younger son, Kouhei, a rowdy but good-hearted boy who narrates the show. While Kouhei's experiences form the basis for the story, a good deal of time is spent on his sister's problematic love life, and on the family's financial problems. Each episode includes an epilogue providing a brief "tour" of locations from the story, showing us how they looked in 1964 and how they look today. The OP provides another set of contrasts between 1964 and today using old and new photographs of places appearing in the anime along with the animated depiction of the 1964 images.

Series details

• Title: Shouwa Monogatari
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Anime, History
• Premiere date: 2011-04-03
• Final broadcast date listed: 2011-06-26
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: SUN-TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 21313
• IMDb ID: tt4234784
• TVDB ID: 248595

Cast and credited roles

• Hiroyuki Yoshino — Yuusuke Sawatari
• Misato Fukuen — Yuuko Yamazaki
• Hisako Kyouda — Yoshi Yamazaki
• Makoto Aoki — Taichi Yamazaki
• Masaaki Tsukada — Gorou Tashiro
• Sakiko Tamagawa — Kanoko Yamazaki
• Wataru Takagi — Ryou Takayanagi
• Yasunori Matsumoto — Yuuzou Yamazaki
• Shōya Chiba — Kouhei Yamazaki

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2011-04-03; final listed air date 2011-06-26; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Shouwa Monogatari on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.