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In mankind's grasp for the future, a sinister foe known only as Gargoyle begins his plans to take over the world. Nadia, with the help of a young...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Noriko Hidaka

In 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In the waiting room of Asumoe Station, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Kobayashi

The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kasumi Arimura

In the end of Meiji era, Takei Chiyo was born in a poor family in Osaka, and was sent to a theatre tea room as a servant when she was 9 years old....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hana Sugisaki

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haru

Genre: Animation

Cast: Koichi Yamadera

The twin girls Tajima Megumi and Ichijo Nozomi was separated at birth after their parents had divorced. Years later they meet each other. Both of...

Genre: Family

Cast: Kinosaki Naoto

The story of Makino Mantaro (Kamiki Ryunosuke), a botanist who ran through the Meiji era (1868-1912) in full bloom, begins. Born the heir to the Tosa...

Genre:

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shihori Kanjiya

Okuhara Natsu was born in Tokyo in 1937. In 1945, she loses both parents to war and becomes an orphan, but her father’s comrade, Shibata Takeo,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Suzu Hirose

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yudai Chiba

A Japanese girl from a poor family named Hanako went on an adventure to study in a girl's Christian school in Tokyo. She found her passion in English...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuriko Yoshitaka

Born in 1937 in Osaka as the eldest daughter, Kawahara Kimiko moves to Shigaraki with her family at the age of 9. She works to support her family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Toda

Teppan is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora. It starred a new actress, Miori Takimoto, in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miori Takimoto

Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the event again in 2020. The first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kantarô Nakamura

Come Come Everybody is a Japanese television drama series and the 105th NHK Asadora series, following Okaeri Mone.. It depicts the lives of three...

Genre: Family

Cast: Mone Kamishiraishi

Suenaga Kokoro, an international flight attendant, lives with her mother and grandmother who operate a traditional restaurant in a lively downtown...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriko Nakagoshi

At the age of nine, Haruka moves from Osaka to Yufuin with her father Yosuke and her younger sister Asuka because Yosuke hopes to open a restaurant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eri Murakawa