Audrey

Ayu no uta

July 2025 •Japanese

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

Watashi wa umi

July 2025 •Japanese

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

Otei-chan

July 2025 •Japanese

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

Kazamidori

July 2025 •Japanese

The 20th NHK Asadora. Starring Harumi Arai as a woman who marries a German and starts a bakery in Kobe.

Ichibanboshi

July 2025 •Japanese

The 19th NHK Asadora. A dramatization of the life of the singer Chiyako Sato. Michiko Godai replaced Haruna Takase in the lead two months into the series when Takase became ill. Adapted from the novel "Aa Tokyo Koshinkyoku" by Yuki Ryoichi.

Hi no kuni ni

July 2025 •Japanese

The 18th NHK Asadora. Starring Keiko Suzuka about a woman who strives to become a landscape gardener.

Welkame

July 2025 •Japanese

Asuka

July 2025 •Japanese

The 61st NHK Asadora Drama is Asuka. Set in Kyoto in the home of a traditional Japanese candy-maker, Asuka is the story of one young girl's dream to one day walk in her father's shoes and become a top candy-maker in the male-dominated world of wagashi (Japanese confectionery). Asuka grows to be a healthy, adventurous young girl with a deep curiosity and, a desire to become a candy-maker like her father. This NHK drama is one of the best in years with an excellent cast, a well-developed story based on extensive research into the traditional worlds of candy making and the tea ceremony in Kyoto, and beautiful scenery and settings in Kyoto and the surrounding areas.

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."

Scarlet

July 2025 •Japanese

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 from a young age. Eventually, she jumps into the male world of pottery and becomes a pioneer of female ceramic arts. After marrying her husband who is also involved in ceramics and owning her own kiln, she raises her two children while struggling to create unique ware.

Wakko no kin medaru

July 2025 •Japanese

The 43th NHK Asadora about a female volleyball player who helps out the local community. Starring Azusa Watanabe.

Nonchan no yume

July 2025 •Japanese

The 40th NHK Asadora starring Fujita Tomoko. It is about a woman who struggles to survive after World War II and starts a magazine.

Hassai Sensei

July 2025 •Japanese

The 39th NHK Asadora drama is Hassai-sensei. A novice teacher in 1930s Osaka learns that there is more to education than mere instruction. Though her tenure is interrupted by first marriage and later World War II, she begins a quest for "ideal education" after the war.

Chotchan

July 2025 •Japanese

The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother.

Miyako no kaze

July 2025 •Japanese

The 37th NHK Asadora. A woman from Kyoto moves to Nara and runs a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn) and then enters the fashion industry.

Ichiban Daiko

July 2025 •Japanese

The 35th NHK Asadora about a man who enters the world of popular theater.

Kokoru wa Itsumo Ramune Iro

July 2025 •Japanese

The 33rd NHK Asadora. Starring Eisaku Shindou as a man who loves manzai (a traditional style of stand-up comedy in Japanese culture). Average rating of 40.2% Based on the life of a famous two-man comedy act writer, Akita Minoru, who loved comedy more than anything. His life itself was full of wit and humor, love and friendship.

Romansu

July 2025 •Japanese

The 32nd NHK Asadora. Starring Takaaki Enoki as a young man who becomes a film director. The first Asadora with a male lead since 1967.

Yôi don

July 2025 •Japanese

A struggling Korean veteran comes to terms with the fact that he is actually a caterpillar. I just made this up.

Haikara-san

July 2025 •Japanese

The 29th NHK Asadora. Starring Satomi Tezuka as a woman who starts a hotel in the Meiji era.