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.

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

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

Starring Yōko Minamida as a woman who supported her family during and after World War II. All episod...

The 9th NHK Asadora. Starring Naoko Otani as a young woman living with her grandmother.

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

The 8th NHK Asadora. Starring Yumiko Fujita in a family drama. The first Asadora filmed in color.

The 7th NHK Asadora. Starring Tadashi Yokouchi in a narrative about an employee of the national rail...

The 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a family...

The 5th NHK Asadora. Starring Chishuu Ryuu as an old man who begins to travel after he retires. From...
The 3rd NHK Asadora. Starring Shin Saburi as a professor who quits the university to become a painte...
The 2nd NHK Asadora and the first Asadora to be broadcast in 15-minute episodes Monday through Satur...
A television serial that was in turn adapted from a radio series and a novel, My Daughter And I feat...

The 13th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Takahashi in a story about a brother and sister coming of age i...

The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki is th...

Kano is known as a "cocoon child" whose father is an agriculturist. Her mother disappeared when she ...

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

Carnation is a Japanese television drama that aired in the Asadora slot on NHK from 3 October 2011 t...

Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot. Set in N...

Natsumi is the 23 years old daughter of a master baker in Yokohama and in training with her father t...

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