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.

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, t...

In Meiji-era Matsue, a fallen samurai’s daughter and a lonely foreign teacher connect through ghost ...

Rin Tachibana, nicknamed Hanekonma, grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Together with her parents, her siste...

NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. Th...

This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at t...

In 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just be...

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

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