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.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

In the end of Meiji era, Takei Chiyo was born in a poor family in Osaka, and was sent to a theatre t...

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

Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot. Set in N...

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

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