At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Katagiri Sozo (played by Nagase Masatoshi), a junior samurai of the Haisaka clan, lived with his mother (played by Chieko Baisho), his sister Shino (played by Tomoko Tabata), and his maid Nozomi (played by Matsu Takako). Live a poor but happy life. After her mother passed away, her sister married Sozo's friend Shimada Zamon (...