TBS's drama special, "Chichi yo, Anata wa erakatta — 1969-nen no oyaji to boku" (Dad! You were great: Father and me in 1969; Mon., 9 p.m.), makes a clever play for two generations of TV viewers by featuring Shigeaki Kato of the idol group News in a time travel story that sends him to 1969, where he meets his father as a young man.
Like a lot of teens, Masaru (Kato) doesn't get along with his boomer father, Toshikazu (Toshiyuki Nishida). They seem to fight about everything, and one night, after a particularly heated argument over Masaru's job, the boy leaves the house in a huff despite the tearful pleas of his mother (Pinko Izumi).
Masaru ends up on a roof, and as he stares at the stars a crow swoops down. He ducks and loses his balance, falling to the ground. When he comes to, he is surrounded by a crowd of people who are strangely dressed that tell him he was saved by a young man named Toshikazu . . .