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Plot Summary:
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 Hitomi becomes the force around which her divorced mother, long estranged from her own father, is forced to reconcile and renew a sense of family camaraderie. This is not particularly easy, given the trifling issues and problems of modern day life that beset each of the characters, and the drama unfolds with a light comedic touch. Hitomi's upbringing is the issue that is constantly brought into focus. The family reconciliation is made possible, ironically through the death of Hitomi's grandmother. Hitomi seizes the opportunity to travel to her funeral from Sapporo. Once there, she sets out to realize her dream of becoming a dancer, all the while interfering with and disrupting her grandfather's life.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: asadora
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My Favorite Member (2019)
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Mana Endo (Yuki Sakurai) is an OL and she is about to turn 30-years-old. She has enjoyed posting about herself on social media, but she has grown tired of that. One day, Mana Endo happens to see underground idol Hana Kurimoto (Sei Shiraishi) perform live. Mana Endo is touched by her, who is not good at performing, but eager at what she is doing.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Kaze no Haruka (2005)
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At the age of nine, Haruka moves from Osaka to Yufuin with her father Yosuke and her younger sister Asuka because Yosuke hopes to open a restaurant in the town. Her mother Yuko, however, chooses to stay in Osaka and the parents soon get a divorce. Yosuke starts running a restaurant but ends up closing it down soon after. Ten years later, Haruka supports her family by working part time while going to a junior college. Worrying about Haruka, Yuko invites her to come to Osaka and offers her a job. Although she has not forgiven her mother, Haruka decides to earn money in Osaka to help Yosuke reopen the restaurant. Through various experiences in Osaka, Haruka gradually understands her mother and grows as a tour planner with her talent for pleasing people.
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Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: asadora
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Oh! My Girl!! (2008)
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Yamashita Kotaro was living a peaceful life as a publisher part-timer aspiring to be a mobile phone novelist until two females suddenly appeared in his life. One is his six-year-old celebrity niece and the other is the little girl's stern manager. As he is forced to live under the same roof as the little prodigy, their differences soon manifest and disputes ensue. However, through co-habitation, Yamashita slowly comes to appreciate having a family and the warmth it brings, all the while developing a love-hate relationship with Fuji Mineko, the manager.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Shibatora (2008)
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No matter how you look at him, Taketora Shibata (Teppei KOIKE) is just a quiet, ordinary junior high student. He looks so vulnerable that bullies try to rip him off on the streets, but he is actually a police detective and an expert swordsman in kendo. Taketora has a special to see the "hands of death" around people whose life is nearing the end. One day, Taketora is assigned on undercover operations. He sneaks into a high school, a maid cafe and a juvenile detention center... With the cooperation from his various friends, he gets to the bottom of the matters.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Scarlet (2019)
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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.
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Genere: Drama, Family, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: asadora
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Twins (2008)
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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 them have a career within the entertainment industry. Megumi who lives in Matsue, Shimane sings in the band Shijimijiru, and Nozomi is a maiko, an apprentice geisha in Kyoto.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: asadora
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The Voice of Hope (2009)
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The story follows the 20-year-old Tsubasa who dedicates her life to her family and their shop. Her life is turned upside down when her mother who was missing came back home. To pay of her mother's debt she starts to work at a small radio station as a DJ.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: asadora
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Here Comes the Morning (2015)
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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, Hatsu, Asa and Kyutaro. His eldest, Hatsu, was a traditional girl who loved to play the koto and sew. Whilst his second daughter, Asa, was an impish hoyden who loved sumo wrestling. Asa was engaged to be married to the second son of a distinguished family who ran a money changer business in Osaka, Shirooka Shinjiro. Although Asa was furious when she had first heard about the betrothal, when she met up with Shinjiro for the first time, his charisma greatly attracted her and she fell in love with him in no time.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: asadora
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Wakaba (2004)
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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.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: asadora
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Tenka (2004)
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Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Teppan (2010)
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Teppan is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora. It starred a new actress, Miori Takimoto, in the role of a young woman raised by an adopted family in Onomichi who learns of her real grandmother and decides to move to Osaka to start an okonomiyaki restaurant. The title word "teppan" refers to the metal surface on which okonomiyaki are cooked. The series, while interrupted by the Tohoku Earthquake, averaged a 17.2% rating, making it the fourth most popular of the Asadora dramas in the previous five years.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: asadora
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Her Granddaughter (2014)
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Tsugumi Dozono works at a large electronics company in Tokyo. She likes to spend long vacations at her grandmother’s house in the countryside. When her grandmother dies, Tsugumi Dozono decides to live in the house full-time, and to work from there as well. However, one day she encounters a middle-aged man in the house, who tells Tsugumi that her grandmother gave him a key to the annex house when he was her student. The two share the property, although Tsugumi still does not know the exact relationship that her grandmother had with this man.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: romantic, tension
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Fake News (2018)
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Itsuki Shinonome is sent to the internet media department from a major newspaper. Chief Editor Kanji Usami assigns her a story involving green caterpillars being found in instant food. A man who posted about the caterpillars in his instant food on social media appears in front of her. A fight between companies eventually draws in Itsuki Shinonome.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Truth of Zero (2014)
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Maou Matsumoto is a new forensic medical examiner who returns in Japan after studying in USA. Mao only interest is her work and the autopsies she performs.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Toto Nee-chan (2016)
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In 1930 and as a young child, Tsuneko Kohashi lives at Enshu in Shizuoka Prefecture. She has a happy life with her parents and two younger sisters. Things change after her father dies from tuberculosis. Her father asked Tsuneko Kohashi to take care of the family in his place. Due to financial difficulties, her mother Kimiko decides to move the family to Tokyo where Tsuneko's grandmother lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: asadora
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Yell (2020)
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NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. They meet each other through music and overcome hardships together. Yuichi composes songs that became "Yells" for people all over Japan in the Showa Era (1926-1989) in which radical changes were going on. .
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: asadora
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Princess in Prison (2017)
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Akemi Adachi is in prison for illegal drug possession, Chinatsu Katsuda for tax evasion and Yoko Daimon for embezzlement. Shinobu Edogawa is imprisoned due to a miscarriage of justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Quartet (2017)
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Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to live together in Karuizawa during the winter, but there is a big hidden secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
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Chaser Game (2022)
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Tatsuya Shindo (Keisuke Watanabe) has worked as a game creator for Dynamic Dream for the past 9 years. He dreamed of holding that job since he was a middle school student. Now, Tatsuya Shindo gets promoted to a middle management position within the company. He is excited to work in his new position as a manager, but what awaits for him are team members who are hard to deal with. A new project is also assigned to him. While working on the project, Tatsuya Shindo encounters various problems. Can he complete the project successfully?.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
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Beautiful Rain (2012)
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A young daughter (Mana Ashida) supports her father (Etsushi Toyokawa) who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Money Crazy (2009)
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Fuutarou has always lived in poverty and hated it. Because of his past he had become obsessed with money and will do anything to obtain it.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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The Hanawa Sisters (2011)
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A dad who is popular with the ladies and a mom that continues to love the dad without any doubt like a young girl. The four sisters that the unbelievably ironclad husband and wife raised includes, an unmarried and divorced, a marriage hunter, a boyfriend-less, and one that has no luck with men. Out of them all, the second daughter Takemi, was the problem child, having divorced multiple times and has 3 kids. Because Takemi lives true to herself, she often ends up standing out from everyone, and gets called "the femme fatale with many lovers," problem child," and "devil." Will she end up causing many humorous troubles!? -- TBS -- DramaWiki.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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The Youngsters (2014)
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Five siblings struggle to live together after their parents have passed away. Arguments are a norm, and each have their own problems with studying, finding a job, marriage, etc. But no matter how dysfunctional their family can be, blood is thicker than water and the ties that bind will keep them together through thick and thin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow (2008)
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Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, sex comedy, clever
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Yuri or Another (2019)
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Sinohara Yuri (Fumika Baba) is a young female college student who has been troubled by a dangerous stalker who won’t leave her alone.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological
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A Taste of Honey (2011)
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Naoko, who is a medical student falls in love for the first time for her uncle, Masato. She gets admitted into a prestigious medical school in Tokyo to get closer to him. There, she meets Aya, the daughter of the hospital's director and also a talented researcher at the school. Aya is also Masato's girlfriend. Aya feels insecure when Naoko meets Masato again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: medical drama
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Silver and Gold (2017)
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Morita, a man who never succeeds in anything, takes his anger out in gambling. He meets an underworld fixer named Ginji Hirai, who introduces him to the underworld trade, where billions of yen changes hands every moment, and speculators and other influential people bet their lives for greed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
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Woman (2013)
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After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Little Giants (2017)
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Shinichiro Kosaka is a detective of the major cases unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and on the path to become captain of the unit when he makes a mistake during an investigation. Kosaka was subsequently demoted to precinct duty, where he finds his new colleagues taking on small cases tirelessly with a sense of justice untinged by workplace politics and internal disputes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Carnation (2011)
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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.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, asadora, stylized