Towards the end of the Edo era, in the town of Kyoto, there lived a wealthy merchant by the name of Imai Tadamasa. He was blessed with 3 children, Hatsu, Asa and Kyutaro. His eldest, Hatsu, was a traditional girl who loved to play the koto and sew. Whilst his second daughter, Asa, was an impish hoyden who loved sumo wrestling. Asa was engaged to be married to the second son of a distinguished family who ran a money changer business in Osaka, Shirooka Shinjiro. Although Asa was furious when she had first heard about the betrothal, when she met up with Shinjiro for the first time, his charisma greatly attracted her and she fell in love with him in no time.

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

Okuhara Natsu was born in Tokyo in 1937. In 1945, she loses both parents to war and becomes an orpha...

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

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.

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...

A ghost was seen on the 12th floor of the Asakusa Juunikai building. A newspaper article featuring t...

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

Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered wi...

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

When swords were outlawed in the eleventh year of the Meiji era, the mighty samurai population began...