The 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of "pure-hearted Kirari." The story is set in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture in the era around the Second World War. When the story opens in 1928, the heroine, Sakurako, is a very active seven-year-old girl. Indeed, even in the first episode she exhibits her confidence and enthusiasm. But above all else, Sakurako is interested in becoming a jazz pianist, and music features extensively in the plot.

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

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

A serialized television series, aired in 1979, based on Hasegawa Machiko's "Sazae-san Uchiakebanashi...

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

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

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

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

Come Come Everybody is a Japanese television drama series and the 105th NHK Asadora series, followin...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Iba...

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

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