This “Shitamachi Locket” is one of the popular novel written by Jun Ikeido. This is adopted for television from 2011 and continue to series 4. The main character is a president of small-sized works, Tsukuda Works (Shitamachi works). This drama gains the great supports of the Japanese “salaryman” because the audiences can sympathize with the story.
This drama focuses on unreasonable treatments of Japanese business and it gets the sympathy. The Tsukuda works met some huge difficulties. They cannot get a financing loan from a Mega-bank or are took off by large business for unreasonable reasons. Its problems reflects the distress of small-sized companies and the workers. Finally, the Tsukuda works get over these great obstacles with the strong team-work, eagerness for manufacturing and humanity. The postures of the small-sized works give refreshing to the audiences who have complaints with Japanese business. In addition, this story lead to reduce stress of workers because the Tsukuda works wins complete victories over tough, evil opponents.
“Shitamachi Locket” match the workers thought in daily life. The story teach us that even the workers in small-sized company can overcome the huge obstacle. All audiences must expect to see that Tsukuda works overwhelm bigger enemies.