The series tells The story of the 1609 invasion of Ryûkyû by forces from the Japanese domain of Satsuma, an event which changed the course of Ryukyuan history dramatically.
There was a very turbulent time in the warring period in the history, and Takeda Shingen is consider...
July 1590, Odawara. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army had surrounded the Odawara Castle for over 3 months, h...
Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of...
Murasaki Shikibu (Yoshitaka Yuriko), the heroine of this story, wrote the bestseller 'The Tale of Ge...
Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo h...
The drama begins in August 1945, three days after the end of the Pacific war. A freight train comple...
The 37th NHK Taiga Drama is Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The series focuses on the life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu...
The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of thr...
In 18th-century Edo, Tsutaya Juzaburo rises from a poor background to become a leading publisher. De...
Yoshitsune is a Japanese television drama series originally broadcast between 9 January and 11 Decem...
He lost his land, his father, and was torn from his mother. Lonely and wounded, young Takechiyo thou...
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, whi...
This is the story about the a very powerful Lady Kasuga who established Ooku the inner palace.
The three Amaba brothers are second-generation Japanese Americans, whose allegiances are torn by the...
The 40th NHK Taiga Drama is Hojo Tokimune. It tells the dramatic and turbulent life of young shikken...
The story takes place during the Muromachi period of Ancient Japan, in the midst of the Ōnin War. Th...
This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the late He...
On March 23, 1585, Japanese Christian envoys visited Pope Gregory XIII at the Papal Court in Rome, I...
The drama centers on Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power, overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate and event...