The Street of the Iron Furnace

The story takes place in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, where there is a street specializing in the cast iron business, Ishiguro Chengoro (Higashino Eijiro) (played by Hamada Mitsuo) is a cast iron worker who works in the Matsunaga Factory. Here, except for a man named Tsukamoto Katsumi (played by Hamada Mitsuo), who is a young man, the rest of the workers are elderly old men. Due to poor factory performance, the Matsunaga Factory was annexed by the large conglomerate Maruzan Company. Old employees such as Tatsugoro were ruthlessly fired because they were too old. In a company run by his friend's father, Tatsugoro finally found a job, but because he was too conservative and did not understand new technologies, Tatsugoro finally chose to resign. In order to support the family, Tatsugoro's wife had to sneak into an izakaya and work as a waitress while taking care of the children. All this was seen by Junko (Sayuri Yoshinaga).