Set during the turbulent transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji era, the film depicts a low-ranking samurai who has been involved in the finances of the Kaga clan for generations as an accountant, and how he lives a strong life while maintaining family ties and leading a strictly cheap life style. Masato Sakai and Yukie Nakama,
two talented actors, were selected to play the main couple. The family’s modest but relaxed lifestyle, unaffected by worldly concerns or current trends, offers more than a few hints for Japanese people living in a prolonged recession.A family ties and leading a strictly cheap lifestyle. The family's modest but relaxed cheerful lifestyle, unaffected by worldly concerns or current trends, offers more than a few hints for Japanese people living in a prolonged recession. Morita's signature family drama was well-received and a big hit. Period dramas without the use of sword fighting, which had not existed until then, became one of Shochiku's main themes after this