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.

Okuhara Natsu was born in Tokyo in 1937. In 1945, she loses both parents to war and becomes an orpha...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4...

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...

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...