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.

A woman who lost her memory after experiencing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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

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 20th NHK Asadora. Starring Harumi Arai as a woman who marries a German and starts a bakery in Ko...

The 19th NHK Asadora. A dramatization of the life of the singer Chiyako Sato. Michiko Godai replace...

The 18th NHK Asadora. Starring Keiko Suzuka about a woman who strives to become a landscape gardener...

The 17th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Asaji as a woman who wants to become a pilot.

The 16th NHK Asadora. Starring Yoko Akino in a contemporary story about a woman who is an office wor...

The 15th NHK Asadora. Starring Shinobu Otake in a story about a young woman striving to become a doc...

The 13th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Takahashi in a story about a brother and sister coming of age i...

The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki is th...

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.