The main character is a mother named Sazae-san. She lives in a house with her husband, her kids and her parents. The show is the ultimate family program and tends to follow traditional themes. Think of this show as the Japanese equivalent to "The Partridge Family" and you'll get a good feel for this show's atmosphere. Don't expect to see things like violence, swearing, kung-fu action or magical girls. The plots are more like "Today, Sazae-san goes to the new mall and gets lost". Such "boring" plotlines and the simplistic art are often a turn-off to non-Japanese audiences, but most Japanese find the show incredibly good. As a result, it continues to be one of the top ratings grabbers on TV and is one of the few anime that is considered "acceptable" by adults.

In February 1998, she came down with myelodysplastic syndrome and was transported to the Bunkyo-ku Tokyo University hospital. Three days after her 70th birthday, Kazue died in the Bunkyo-ku Tokyo University hospital annex. She presumably died from bone marrow cancer.

__Non-Anime Roles:__  E.T. in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (Japanese dub)

Her true name is Yoshiko Masumoto (増本美子) and her maiden name is Tominaga (冨永).  She works for mint Avenue.

[Blog](http://ameblo.jp/tominaga-miina/)

Nobuyo Ooyama, born Nobuyo Yamashita (山下羨代) was a Japanese retired actress, voice actress, singer, screenwriter, essayist, and TV personality affiliated with Actors Seven. Her husband is late TV personality Keisuke Sagawa. She is best known for voicing the title character in the Doraemon anime series that ran from 1979 to 2005, for 26 years. She also voiced Monokuma, the main villain from the Danganronpa video-game series, from 2010 to 2016 for the first three video games, two Danganronpa stageshows, and Danganronpa: The Animation.

Slice of Life manga about a woman named Sazae and her family.

Katsuo Isono