Set in the Ryukyu Kingdom during the latter days of the Tokugawa shogunate, a woman takes the guise of a Eunuch to pass a government examination. She eventually becomes a government official still in the disguise of a man.

A story set in the mid-1800's about a young doctor who has been trained in Western-style medicine an...

Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanni...

In 1972 Okinawa, a $1 million heist risks a US-Japan crisis. A covert police team has 18 days to rec...

The Shogunate is in its final years, and war is fast approaching. When Yojiro Akizuki, a dark and my...

Higa Nobuko was born and raised with her four siblings in a farmhouse in the "Yanbaru region" in the...

Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in...

Yae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuse...

After awakening in the Edo era, a neurosurgeon uses his medical knowledge to help those around him w...

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eu...

Yukimura Chizuru is the daughter of a doctor who works in Edo; her father leaves Edo to work as a vo...

Based on the novel by Jirō Asada, the TV movie depicts the lives of the Shinsengumi warriors during ...

The story of Makino Mantaro (Kamiki Ryunosuke), a botanist who ran through the Meiji era (1868-1912)...

Towards the end of the Edo era, in the town of Kyoto, there lived a wealthy merchant by the name of ...

Set during the Bakumatsu (final years of the Edo period). Sakai Banshiro is a lower-class samurai. L...

Historical drama about the life of Saigō Takamori and his involvement with the Meiji Restoration.

In an era when samurai ruled Japan, the Zomen no Oni wiped out all but one member of the Shinsengumi...

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, the...

Ryoma ga Yuku is a five-hour epic which chronicles the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary w...

The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born...

It depicts how the winner, the Satsuma Clan, and the loser, the Aizu Clan, survive through the Edo p...