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

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

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

The 42nd NHK Asadora which is about the Agawa family.

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

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.

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

Katsuragi Motoko started as an NHK announcer, became a reportage writer after the war, and then an author. This story is about a woman’s ...

The 25th NHK Asadora. Nishiki Natsuko is a woman who strives to become a photographer.

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

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

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 17th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Asaji as a woman who wants to become a pilot.

The 16th NHK Asadora. Starring Yoko Akino in a contemporary story about a woman who is an office worker.

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 ...

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

The 13th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Takahashi in a story about a brother and sister coming of age in Hakodate and Kanazawa.

The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki is the heroine, married to Shuichi who must go to ...

Kano is known as a “cocoon child” whose father is an agriculturist. Her mother disappeared when she was little and since then Kano ...

Starring Yōko Minamida as a woman who supported her family during and after World War II. All episodes are missing from the NHK archives, though ...

The 9th NHK Asadora. Starring Naoko Otani as a young woman living with her grandmother.

The 8th NHK Asadora. Starring Yumiko Fujita in a family drama. The first Asadora filmed in color.

The 7th NHK Asadora. Starring Tadashi Yokouchi in a narrative about an employee of the national railroad living through 50 years of modern ...

The 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a family by herself.

The 5th NHK Asadora. Starring Chishuu Ryuu as an old man who begins to travel after he retires. From a story written for television by Yasunari ...

The 4th NHK Asadora. Starring Michiko Hayashi as a woman born in poverty who lives a brave life. She lost her husband in war and now must take ...

The 3rd NHK Asadora. Starring Shin Saburi as a professor who quits the university to become a painter.

The 2nd NHK Asadora and the first Asadora to be broadcast in 15-minute episodes Monday through Saturday. Starring Fumiko Watanabe in a drama of a ...

A television serial that was in turn adapted from a radio series and a novel, My Daughter And I featured a Japanese novelist who is married to a ...