The 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most enduring and best loved stories of Japan's history. Generations have grown up hearing the stirring tale of Oishi Kuranosuke, chief councillor of the Ako clan who leads his men through suffering and hardship to ultimately avenge their lord after he is unjustly forced to commit harakiri. NHK's 38th Taiga Drama "Genroku Ryoran" is the ambitious remake of this classic epic and boasts a cast that reads like a Who's Who in Japanese entertainment.

The drama tells the story of the Sanada family. Originally serving the Takeda Clan they ruled the no...

A dramatization of Ryotaro Shiba's novel of the same title about the life of Kobayashi Sahē, a chiva...

Legendary yakuza actors Hakuryu and Hitoshi Ozawa star in this epic series where money, power, and b...

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

Four young people have been arrested for crimes they did not commit. When one of them learns that hi...

A Japanese tabloid reporter tired of working simply as a celebrity scandals writer accepts a new cha...

There was a very turbulent time in the warring period in the history, and Takeda Shingen is consider...

July 1590, Odawara. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army had surrounded the Odawara Castle for over 3 months, h...

Princess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led a re...

The main character, Hanbei Hinata, who plays Mizutani, is a direct hatamoto guardian who guards Edo ...

A Happy alien, Takopi, lands on Earth with one mission: to spread happiness! When he meets Shizuka, ...

Junko Sakuraba dreams of working in New York, but she currently works as an English conversation tea...

Osome is an ex-actress who lost her parents in a fire when she was 6-years old. She then is separate...

Chief instructor Seiji Usami trains an elite team of rescue operatives to undergo daring missions in...

The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical ...

At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Kotoko Aihara, who isn't that smart, notices...

Heiji is an undercover policeman in the city of Edo. He possesses a superior skill of throwing coins...

A young orphan named Biwa is taken in by the powerful Taira Clan—also known as the Heike—after their...

When an estranged friend resurfaces after 12 years, a prosecutor starts connecting disjointed events...