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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hiroshi Morita

Genre: Animation

Cast: Eiko Masuyama

Honda Goro the son of a famous baseball player loves nothing more than baseball itself. His biggest dream is to show his father that he can become...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Showtaro Morikubo

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

On March 23, 1585, Japanese Christian envoys visited Pope Gregory XIII at the Papal Court in Rome, Italy. The drama begins 45 years earlier - in 1540...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mayumi Wakabayashi

Genre: Documentary

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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

Trivia on aspects of Japan's unique culture and products that reflect the aesthetic sense and values of the Japanese people.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Barakan

The 78th NHK Asadora is Hitomi. The series takes place in the old shitamachi area of Tokyo, and in these most recent episodes, 20-year old heroine...

Genre: Family

Cast: Nana Eikura

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

Welcome to Yamauchi, a world inhabited by the Yatagarasu, a race of three-legged ravens who shapeshift into humans. The land is divided into four...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Mutsumi Tamura

Shibuya Yuuri, an ordinary high school boy got flushed in a toilet and he saw himself in another world. He was then declared as the 27th maou or the...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Takahiro Sakurai

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

An NHK flagship program, centered around a diverse range of documentaries, delves into the dynamic shifts of society, politics and history, as well...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Two charismatic people from completely different fields who usually have no contact with each other meet, and with the intention of what kind of...

Genre: Talk

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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

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

Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tao Tsuchiya

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yudai Chiba