The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.
The 22nd NHK Asadora. Starring Tomoko Aihara. About a woman raising war orphans.
The 21st NHK Asadora. Starring Chikako Yuri in a dramatization of the life of Sadako Sawamura.
The 20th NHK Asadora. Starring Harumi Arai as a woman who marries a German and starts a bakery in Ko...
The 19th NHK Asadora. A dramatization of the life of the singer Chiyako Sato. Michiko Godai replace...
The 18th NHK Asadora. Starring Keiko Suzuka about a woman who strives to become a landscape gardener...
The 17th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Asaji as a woman who wants to become a pilot.
The 16th NHK Asadora. Starring Yoko Akino in a contemporary story about a woman who is an office wor...
Okuhara Natsu was born in Tokyo in 1937. In 1945, she loses both parents to war and becomes an orpha...
The 40th NHK Asadora starring Fujita Tomoko. It is about a woman who struggles to survive after Worl...
The 39th NHK Asadora drama is Hassai-sensei. A novice teacher in 1930s Osaka learns that there is mo...
The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother.
The 37th NHK Asadora. A woman from Kyoto moves to Nara and runs a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn...
The 35th NHK Asadora about a man who enters the world of popular theater.
The 33rd NHK Asadora. Starring Eisaku Shindou as a man who loves manzai (a traditional style of stan...
The 32nd NHK Asadora. Starring Takaaki Enoki as a young man who becomes a film director. The first A...
A struggling Korean veteran comes to terms with the fact that he is actually a caterpillar. I just m...
The 29th NHK Asadora. Starring Satomi Tezuka as a woman who starts a hotel in the Meiji era.
Katsuragi Motoko started as an NHK announcer, became a reportage writer after the war, and then an a...
The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is buried ...
The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka Revue...