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...

The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going ...

A serialized television series, aired in 1979, based on Hasegawa Machiko's "Sazae-san Uchiakebanashi...

The story follows the 20-year-old Tsubasa who dedicates her life to her family and their shop. Her l...

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

Higa Nobuko was born and raised with her four siblings in a farmhouse in the "Yanbaru region" in the...

In the early Showa era, the town of Choshi in Chiba Prefecture was divided by the conflicts between ...

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

Suzume is a girl born to a family running a small restaurant in Gifu Prefecture. She loses her heari...

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

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

The twin girls Tajima Megumi and Ichijo Nozomi was separated at birth after their parents had divorc...

In 1930 and as a young child, Tsuneko Kohashi lives at Enshu in Shizuoka Prefecture. She has a happy...

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...

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

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