Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
Imo Tako Nankin

Imo Tako Nankin

Genres

FamilyDrama

OverView

The series takes place in 1962 Osaka. Hanaoka Machiko, 37, is single and works at a hardware store in Osaka City while doing literary work. One day, she falls ill due to overwork and falls in love with Tokunaga Kenjiro, the doctor who examines her. Kenjiro and Machiko marry. But Kenjiro, who lost his first wife to illness, lives not just with his five children, but his brother, sister, and parents. In a comical and heart-warming way, the drama depicts Machiko's struggle with the new family while pursuing her career as a novelist.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Ended

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

mins

Rating

10/10

Release Date

26 July 2025

Country

Japan

Cast

Naomi Fujiyama

Naomi Fujiyama

Machiko Hanaoka

Jun Kunimura

Jun Kunimura

徳永健次郎

Kyōko Kagawa

Kyōko Kagawa

花岡和代

Tomoko Tabata

Tomoko Tabata

徳永晴子

Ittoku Kishibe

Ittoku Kishibe

花岡常太郎

Ayumi Ishida

Ayumi Ishida

矢木沢純子

Chikage Awashima

Chikage Awashima

花岡ウメ

Similar TV Shows

7.4

Welcome Home, Mone

July 2025 •Japanese

Born in September of 1995, Momone Nagaura lived with her parents, grandfather, and sister in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture. After failing her college entrance exams, she went to live in Tome City with an acquaintance of her grandfather's. Momone's life changes when she meets a popular weather forecaster from Tokyo, who teaches her how weather forecasts can predict the future. She decides to study to become a weather forecaster.

8.0

Chiritotechin

July 2025 •Japanese

The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.

7.0

Natsuzora

July 2025 •Japanese

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, takes her in and moves to Tokachi in Hokkaido. In an unfamiliar land surrounded by unfamiliar people, Natsu feels lost at first, but surrounded by Tokachi’s vast nature and its strong, yet compassionate people, she grows up to be a strong girl. When Natsu enters elementary school, she meets Yamada Tenyo who draws lovely pictures of horses. Tenyo tells her that in America, animation in which pictures move is becoming popular, Natsu’s curiosity is piqued. Upon graduating high school, Natsu goes to Tokyo to look up her brother, and takes a jump into the world of animation.

0.0

Hatoko no umi

July 2025 •Japanese

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

5.5

Soar High!

July 2025 •Japanese

Iwakura Mai lives with her parents Kota and Megumi and older brother Haruto. Her father Kota runs a small factory in Higashi Osaka, a district that is known for its craftsmen. Mai is shy and withdrawn. But when she visits her grandmother Shoko who lives on Nagasaki’s Goto Islands which has a rich natural environment, she is entranced by the Baramon kites that catch the wind and soar high in the sky. Wanting to fly high in the sky like these kites, Mai’s longing swells into a dream to become a pilot. Even though she works hard, the path to getting there is tougher than she had imagined. As Mai deepens her ties with the people living in her two hometowns of Higashi Osaka and Goto, her dream eventually takes a new form. She gathers enthusiastic friends to build a small electric plane that can fly to and from the islands. Her dream becomes a wing that carries everyone’s dreams and takes off.

0.0

Yanchakure

July 2025 •Japanese

The 59th NHK Asadora Drama is Yanchakure. Location includes Osaka. In Osaka, "yanchakure" is a bit of an old word which is used to describe tomboyish or mischievous young girls. Mizushima Nagisa happens to be such a girl, that, no matter how well-intentioned her motives nor how hard she tries, Nagisa just seems to end up failing. In fact, she has failed at different things in her life so many times that she has come to see it as a source of personal strength, her philosophy being one of, "It's natural for a human being to fail many times in the course of their life and thanks to those failures we can become adults."

0.0

Ten urara

July 2025 •Japanese

This drama is the tale of one high spirited, strong-willed young woman and her struggle to fulfill her lifelong ambition of becoming a carpenter and building homes. The story takes place from the later part of the Showa era to present day Heisei rule. The heroine of the story, Kawashima Urara, lost her father at the tender age of seven and this drama depicts her life as she grows from a young school girl, through puberty and adolescence and on into her adult years as an independent woman who owns her own carpentry business. As Urara grows into a beautiful and strong woman and a talented carpenter, her family around her goes through many difficult and trying times. This story of becoming an independent businesswoman in the male-dominated world of carpentry accurately reflects the lives and struggles of the young women in present day Japan who are trying to make a career for themselves in addition to balancing the demands of family obligations, friends, and lovers.

0.0

Amakarashan

July 2025 •Japanese

The 57th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama. Story's settings include Kobe and Sasayama. It is a story about the conflicts between generations and the relationships within families. A strong mother-daughter theme and a sister-brother theme exist.

0.0

Hashiran ka!

July 2025 •Japanese

Set in Hakata, the series is about a young man who wants to play rock music even though his father expects him to follow him in making Hakata ningyou (a traditional Japanese clay doll). One of the few Asadora starring a male character.

0.0

Haru yo koi

July 2025 •Japanese

A successful screenwriter looks back on her life when she learns her husband has cancer. A year-long series, starring Narumi Yasuda.

0.0

Piano

July 2025 •Japanese

The drama about the youngest of four sisters, all raised solely by their father, who wants to write children's books.

0.0

Karin

July 2025 •Japanese

A young woman Chiaki whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, the only daughter of old traditional family. For generations, they were making soybean paste for living. Now she needs to take over this business and rebuild it. She lives through the hardships of postwar Japan.

0.0

Eenyobo

July 2025 •Japanese

A woman works hard to become a good doctor even though she is separated from her husband.

0.0

Hirari

July 2025 •Japanese

The 48th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Hirari. Story's settings includes Tokyo. Hirari is a young and energetic girl. She loves the sports, sumo, very much and would like to find a career. However, there isn't any suitable career for a female in this area. Nevertheless, she still works hard towards her dream, and at last, she gets a chance to become a sumo stable's nutrition consultant.in this field. However, there isn't any suitable career for a female in this area. Nevertheless, she still works hard towards her dream, and at last, she gets a chance to become a sumo stable's nutrition consultant.

0.0

Onna wa dokyo

July 2025 •Japanese

The 47th NHK Asadora chronicles the conflicts between a woman and her step-daughter in a hot springs town.

7.0

Kimi no na wa

July 2025 •Japanese

A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.

0.0

Mizuiro no toki

July 2025 •Japanese

The 15th NHK Asadora. Starring Shinobu Otake in a story about a young woman striving to become a doctor and her mother, who is a nurse. The first six-month Asadora. Average rating of 40.1%.

0.0

Ayu no uta

July 2025 •Japanese

The 24th NHK Asadora. Starring Senri Yamazaki as a woman who makes her life at a fishing port.

0.0

Watashi wa umi

July 2025 •Japanese

The 22nd NHK Asadora. Starring Tomoko Aihara. About a woman raising war orphans.

0.0

Otei-chan

July 2025 •Japanese

The 21st NHK Asadora. Starring Chikako Yuri in a dramatization of the life of Sadako Sawamura.