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.
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 33rd NHK Asadora. Starring Eisaku Shindou as a man who loves manzai (a traditional style of stan...
The 32nd NHK Asadora. Starring Takaaki Enoki as a young man who becomes a film director. The first A...
A struggling Korean veteran comes to terms with the fact that he is actually a caterpillar. I just m...
The 29th NHK Asadora. Starring Satomi Tezuka as a woman who starts a hotel in the Meiji era.
Katsuragi Motoko started as an NHK announcer, became a reportage writer after the war, and then an a...
The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is buried ...
The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka Revue...
The 25th NHK Asadora. Nishiki Natsuko is a woman who strives to become a photographer.
Okuhara Natsu was born in Tokyo in 1937. In 1945, she loses both parents to war and becomes an orpha...
The 45th NHK Asadora. Set in an old Kyoto tsukemono (Japanese preserved vegetables) store, this seri...
The 44th NHK Asadora about a man who developed an early television system.
The 43th NHK Asadora about a female volleyball player who helps out the local community. Starring Az...
The 40th NHK Asadora starring Fujita Tomoko. It is about a woman who struggles to survive after Worl...
The 39th NHK Asadora drama is Hassai-sensei. A novice teacher in 1930s Osaka learns that there is mo...
The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother.
The 37th NHK Asadora. A woman from Kyoto moves to Nara and runs a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn...