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.

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

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

Uno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and mo...

Come Come Everybody is a Japanese television drama series and the 105th NHK Asadora series, followin...

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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...

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

The 97th NHK asadora is about Ten who becomes the first female comedian.

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...

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...

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

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

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