Synopsis

Post-war Osaka lay in ruins. Amid the scorched landscape stood a man who could instantly craft pots, pans—even tricycles—from piles of scrap metal. That man was Taguchi Tomezo (Tsutsumi Shinichi), who had honed his metalworking skills at an artillery factory.
 
Two of his three sons never returned from the battlefield, and his youngest was lost in an air raid the day before the war ended. As if to shake off the weight of his grief, Tomezō threw himself into the work before him.
 
While major corporations were still unable to restart operations in the postwar chaos, Tomezō and his wife launched the Taguchi Ironworks out of a makeshift shack. In the midst of this, his second son miraculously repatriated, took over the family business and made the painful decision to manufacture weapons for the Korean War—for the sake of his family.
 
Fast forward to 1969, with the Osaka Expo fast approaching. Tomezo’s grand-daugter Taguchi Michiko, now a university student, wrestles with the contradictions of war and peace alongside her classmates.
 
Through the family history of three generations, this is an 80-year journey of destruction and rebirth seen through the eyes of one Osaka family.