The 59th NHK Asadora Drama is Yanchakure. Location includes Osaka. In Osaka, "yanchakure" is a bit of an old word which is used to describe tomboyish or mischievous young girls. Mizushima Nagisa happens to be such a girl, that, no matter how well-intentioned her motives nor how hard she tries, Nagisa just seems to end up failing. In fact, she has failed at different things in her life so many times that she has come to see it as a source of personal strength, her philosophy being one of, "It's natural for a human being to fail many times in the course of their life and thanks to those failures we can become adults."

Massan is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan, a Scots...

Born in 1937 in Osaka as the eldest daughter, Kawahara Kimiko moves to Shigaraki with her family at ...

In the early Showa era, Japan’s first women’s law school opens, and the protagonist, Inotsume Tomoko...

Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a...

Come Come Everybody is a Japanese television drama series and the 105th NHK Asadora series, followin...

The 69th NHK Asadora Drama, based on Rei Nakanishi's novel, is about the Iwata family living in Iked...

Suenaga Kokoro, an international flight attendant, lives with her mother and grandmother who operate...

Uno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and mo...

The story is about a young woman who becomes a landscape gardener following her father's wishes. Wak...

In the bustling city of Osaka, a captivating gourmet drama unfolds, revolving around the enigmatic B...

The 97th NHK asadora is about Ten who becomes the first female comedian.

NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. Th...

Rin Tachibana, nicknamed Hanekonma, grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Together with her parents, her siste...

Jun to Ai is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on October 1, 2012 and was broadcast unt...

Umechan Sensei is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on April 2, 2012. It is about a gir...

The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, t...

The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Iba...