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.
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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.
The story follows Minamida Nozomi, the charming female protagonist whose company's performance deteriorates due to the collapse of the bubble economy and who is forced to quit her job as she is prevented from getting married and starting a family. However, after her younger brother is involved in a theft incident within her family, she decides to become a lawyer. She passed the difficult bar exam and faced the harsh reality of legal training in Fukushima.
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 and step by step made her dream come true.
Mizuki is a would-be actress who has yet to attain her goal, struggles to keep the dream in her heart alive while dealing with the reality of her normal life, far away from lights, cameras, and action she longs for. Despite words of warnings from her family, which includes her birth and step mothers, intended to keep her from reaching her destiny, she actually makes it onto a set of one of the film companies in Tokyo. She experiences the peaks and valleys of a starting actress, but receives a blow when news of the company collapses and eventually closes. Mizuki returns home, but, the fire once lit, still burns.
In wartime Japan, spirited Nobu transforms from a militarist schoolgirl into Kochi’s first female reporter, as she and childhood friend Takashi endure personal loss and struggle to find their own truths amid the upheaval of the Showa era.
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Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.
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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.
Natsumi is the 23 years old daughter of a master baker in Yokohama and in training with her father to become a pastry chef. She lives with her parents and younger brother in Yokohama. One day she travels to Iwate Prefecture with her boyfriend Masaki for his grandmother Katsuno's 77th birthday. While they are there, Katsuno, head okami of a famous ryokan in Morioka City, becomes ill and asks Masaki to return to run the ryokan. Natsumi returns to Yokohama and later Masaki visits, asking her to disregard their earlier plans to get married because he will return to Morioka as requested by Katsuno. However, Natsumi surprises him with a vow to become the ryokan's okami. Is Natsumi in for clear skies as suggested by the series name?
Carnation is a Japanese television drama that aired in the Asadora slot on NHK from 3 October 2011 to 31 March 2012. It is the 85th Asadora. It is based on the life of the fashion designer Ayako Koshino in Kishiwada, Osaka. Ayako was the mother of the internationally famous designers Hiroko Koshino, Junko Koshino, and Michiko Koshino.
Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot. Set in Nagano prefecture, "Ohisama" covers the life of Yoko Sudo (Mao Inoue) through World War II. Yoko Sudo with her smile is able to bring brightness to those around her & she follows her mother's motif to laugh through the hard times. During the onset of WW II, Yoko is a high school student and "Ohisama" follows her as she eventually becomes a teacher and then gets married and has a child. Yoko then opens a soba restaurant with her student. --asianwiki
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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 life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.
The 69th NHK Asadora Drama, based on Rei Nakanishi's novel, is about the Iwata family living in Ikeda, Osaka City between 1950s and 1960s. The story is told through the eyes of the youngest daughter, Fuyuko. The family runs a bakery. The mother, Teruko, is a very energetic woman who is determined to make her dreams come true. Responding to Teruko's expectations, the eldest daughter becomes a figure skater and the second daughter becomes a very famous professional singer. In contrast, Fuyuko finds her joy in bread making.
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.
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.
Suenaga Kokoro, an international flight attendant, lives with her mother and grandmother who operate a traditional restaurant in a lively downtown district of Tokyo where customs and traditions run deep and neighbors know each other like a big family.
The story is about a young woman who becomes a landscape gardener following her father's wishes. Wakaba, born and brought up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, lived happily with her parents and younger brother until the Great Hanshin Earthquake shook and destroyed the city in 1995. In the disaster, Wakaba loses her father, who was an architect and moves with her mother and brother to Obi, old castle town in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, where her grandmother lives with her uncle and aunt. Living in Obi's rich natural environment, Wakaba learns that plants can heal people's hearts. She makes a resolution to return to Kobe and reconstruct the city abundant in greenery.
Massan is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan, a Scotswoman Taketsuru met while studying abroad.
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151 episodes • 2006
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
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| 1 | Episode 1 | Oct 2, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Oct 3, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Oct 4, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Oct 5, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Oct 6, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Oct 7, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Episode 7 | Oct 9, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Episode 8 | Oct 10, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Episode 9 | Oct 11, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Episode 10 | Oct 12, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Episode 11 | Oct 13, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Episode 12 | Oct 14, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Episode 13 | Oct 16, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Episode 14 | Oct 17, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Episode 15 | Oct 18, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Episode 16 | Oct 19, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Episode 17 | Oct 20, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Episode 18 | Oct 21, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Episode 19 | Oct 23, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Episode 20 | Oct 24, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Episode 21 | Oct 25, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Episode 22 | Oct 26, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Episode 23 | Oct 27, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Episode 24 | Oct 28, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Episode 25 | Oct 30, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Episode 26 | Oct 31, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 27 | Episode 27 | Nov 1, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 28 | Episode 28 | Nov 2, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 29 | Episode 29 | Nov 3, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 30 | Episode 30 | Nov 4, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 31 | Episode 31 | Nov 6, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 32 | Episode 32 | Nov 7, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 33 | Episode 33 | Nov 8, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 34 | Episode 34 | Nov 9, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 35 | Episode 35 | Nov 10, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 36 | Episode 36 | Nov 11, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 37 | Episode 37 | Nov 13, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 38 | Episode 38 | Nov 14, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 39 | Episode 39 | Nov 15, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 40 | Episode 40 | Nov 16, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 41 | Episode 41 | Nov 17, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 42 | Episode 42 | Nov 18, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 43 | Episode 43 | Nov 20, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 44 | Episode 44 | Nov 21, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 45 | Episode 45 | Nov 22, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 46 | Episode 46 | Nov 23, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 47 | Episode 47 | Nov 24, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 48 | Episode 48 | Nov 25, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 49 | Episode 49 | Nov 27, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 50 | Episode 50 | Nov 28, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 51 | Episode 51 | Nov 29, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 52 | Episode 52 | Nov 30, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 53 | Episode 53 | Dec 1, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 54 | Episode 54 | Dec 2, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 55 | Episode 55 | Dec 4, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 56 | Episode 56 | Dec 5, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 57 | Episode 57 | Dec 6, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 58 | Episode 58 | Dec 7, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 59 | Episode 59 | Dec 8, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 60 | Episode 60 | Dec 9, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 61 | Episode 61 | Dec 11, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 62 | Episode 62 | Dec 12, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 63 | Episode 63 | Dec 13, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 64 | Episode 64 | Dec 14, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 65 | Episode 65 | Dec 15, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 66 | Episode 66 | Dec 16, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 67 | Episode 67 | Dec 18, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 68 | Episode 68 | Dec 19, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 69 | Episode 69 | Dec 20, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 70 | Episode 70 | Dec 21, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 71 | Episode 71 | Dec 22, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 72 | Episode 72 | Dec 23, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 73 | Episode 73 | Dec 25, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 74 | Episode 74 | Dec 26, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 75 | Episode 75 | Dec 27, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 76 | Episode 76 | Dec 28, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 77 | Episode 77 | Jan 4, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 78 | Episode 78 | Jan 5, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 79 | Episode 79 | Jan 6, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 80 | Episode 80 | Jan 8, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 81 | Episode 81 | Jan 9, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 82 | Episode 82 | Jan 10, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 83 | Episode 83 | Jan 11, 2007 | 0.0 |
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| 85 | Episode 85 | Jan 13, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 86 | Episode 86 | Jan 15, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 87 | Episode 87 | Jan 16, 2007 | 0.0 |
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| 89 | Episode 89 | Jan 18, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 90 | Episode 90 | Jan 19, 2007 | 0.0 |
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| 96 | Episode 96 | Jan 26, 2007 | 0.0 |
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| 98 | Episode 98 | Jan 29, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 99 | Episode 99 | Jan 30, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 100 | Episode 100 | Jan 31, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 101 | Episode 101 | Feb 1, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 102 | Episode 102 | Feb 2, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 103 | Episode 103 | Feb 3, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 104 | Episode 104 | Feb 5, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 105 | Episode 105 | Feb 6, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 106 | Episode 106 | Feb 7, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 107 | Episode 107 | Feb 8, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 108 | Episode 108 | Feb 9, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 109 | Episode 109 | Feb 10, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 110 | Episode 110 | Feb 12, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 111 | Episode 111 | Feb 13, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 112 | Episode 112 | Feb 14, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 113 | Episode 113 | Feb 15, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 114 | Episode 114 | Feb 16, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 115 | Episode 115 | Feb 17, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 116 | Episode 116 | Feb 19, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 117 | Episode 117 | Feb 20, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 118 | Episode 118 | Feb 21, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 119 | Episode 119 | Feb 22, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 120 | Episode 120 | Feb 23, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 121 | Episode 121 | Feb 24, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 122 | Episode 122 | Feb 26, 2007 | 0.0 |
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| 124 | Episode 124 | Feb 28, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 125 | Episode 125 | Mar 1, 2007 | 0.0 |
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| 131 | Episode 131 | Mar 8, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 132 | Episode 132 | Mar 9, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 133 | Episode 133 | Mar 10, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 134 | Episode 134 | Mar 12, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 135 | Episode 135 | Mar 13, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 136 | Episode 136 | Mar 14, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 137 | Episode 137 | Mar 15, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 138 | Episode 138 | Mar 16, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 139 | Episode 139 | Mar 17, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 140 | Episode 140 | Mar 19, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 141 | Episode 141 | Mar 20, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 142 | Episode 142 | Mar 21, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 143 | Episode 143 | Mar 22, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 144 | Episode 144 | Mar 23, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 145 | Episode 145 | Mar 24, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 146 | Episode 146 | Mar 26, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 147 | Episode 147 | Mar 27, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 148 | Episode 148 | Mar 28, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 149 | Episode 149 | Mar 29, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 150 | Episode 150 | Mar 30, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 151 | Episode 151 | Mar 31, 2007 | 0.0 |