A milestone in daytime drama serials that aired in 1986 on Fuji TV: Spring, 1927. Den'emon Saegusa (Akira Nakao), a landowner in Shirabe Village, West Kofu District, brings home an orphan (Tetsuya Minagawa) who tried to steal his bag in Yokohama, where he was on business. Den'emon thinks the child looks like his second son, Takeru, who had died two years earlier, and tries to help him. However, his wife, Kinu (Enami Anzu), is not at ease, fearing that the child may be Den'emon's illegitimate son.