Kikujiro, the father of the Kitano family, is a strict, short tempered, yet daringly comical old-fashioned type of person. Saki, the mother, is a positive, cheerful, and clever lady who always quarrels with her husband, but eventually support him at the end in whatever hardship there may be. This drama provides an opportunity for people to look back and remind how strong and rich family relationship was in those days when Japan was less affluent than now.

Kikujiro and Saki, the father and mother in the Kitano household. The new series actually takes place two years before the first one, at a time when the son Takeshi is in third grade.