The 56th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Agri. Story's settings include Okayama and Tokyo (Ichigaya). This renzoku chronicles the life of a Showa period hairdresser, and is based on a true life story of Moshizuki Agri. Agri has worked for over 70 years as a beautician. She is a successful business woman who survived the war by becoming a farmer. During the war, going to the beauty salon was considered a frivolity, so many such businesses went bankrupt as Japan suffered from the energy spent as all the yen was fueled into the war effort.

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

The 69th NHK Asadora Drama, based on Rei Nakanishi's novel, is about the Iwata family living in Iked...

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