朝ドラ | NHK Asadora (1989-2019)

Fall 2018
Starring Sakura Ando as Fukuko Imai. Based on the lives of Momofuku Andō, who invented instant ramen, and his wife Masako.

Spring 2018
Starring Mei Nagano as Suzume Nireno. About a woman who lost hearing in one ear who, after failing as a mangaka, becomes an inventor.

Fall 2017
Starring Wakana Aoi as Ten Fujioka. Based on the lives of the founders of Yoshimoto Kogyo.

Spring 2017
Starring Kasumi Arimura as Mineko Yatabe, a young woman who travels from rural Ibaraki Prefecture to Tokyo in the mid-1960s to find her lost father.

Fall 2016
Starring Kyoko Yoshine as Sumire, a brave woman who starts a company makes clothing for children. Based on the lives of Atsuko Banno, founder of Familiar.

Spring 2016
Starring Mitsuki Takahata as Tsuneko Kohashi, a woman who starts a successful consumer advice magazine.

Fall 2015
Starring Haru as Asa Imai. Based on the life of Asako Hirooka, a pioneering Japanese businesswoman.

Spring 2015
Starring Tao Tsuchiya as a young woman from the Noto Peninsula who wants to become a pâtissière.

Fall 2014
Starring Charlotte Kate Fox as Ellie Kameyama, wife of Masaharu Kameyama, portrayed by Tetsuji Tamayama, a man who starts whisky brewing in Japan. It is based on the life of Rita Taketsuru, a Scotswoman who married the Japanese man Masataka Taketsuru, the father of Japan's whisky industry.

Spring 2014
Starring Yuriko Yoshitaka as Hanako Muraoka, the woman who first translated Anne of Green Gables into Japanese.

Fall 2013
Starring Anne Watanabe as a young woman trying to learn how to cook Japanese cuisine during the Taisho and Shōwa periods.

Spring 2013
Starring Rena Nōnen as a young woman who becomes an ama and then an idol before returning to Tohoku to help revive the area after the earthquake.

Fall 2012
Starring Natsuna as a young woman who wants to start her ideal hotel. Set in Osaka and Miyakojima.

Spring 2012
Starring Maki Horikita, who plays a young woman striving to become a physician in post-World War II Tokyo.

Fall 2011
Starring Machiko Ono. Based on the life of fashion designer Ayako Koshino.

Spring 2011
Starring Mao Inoue. Yoko's dream is to become a school teacher, but she also experiences tough times during the Pacific War.

Fall 2010
Starring Miori Takimoto and Sumiko Fuji. Akari's natural mother is originally from Osaka. She moves to Osaka to live with her grandmother to learn more about her mother. She learns that her grandmother closed the okonomiyaki restaurant after Akari's teenage mother ran away. Akari then re-opens the restaurant.

Spring 2010
Starring Nao Matsushita. Fumie is the wife of manga artist Shigeru Mizuki.

Fall 2009
Starring Kana Kurashina. About a girl from Minami-cho, Tokushima who, inspired by seeing a sea turtle when she was six, strives to become a magazine editor.

Spring 2009
Starring Mikako Tabe as Tsubasa who works at a local radio station, and eventually becomes a disc jockey.

Fall 2008
Starring identical twins Mana and Kana Mikura. Finding each other years after being separated as children, they work together to achieve their dreams as singers.

Spring 2008
Starring Nana Eikura. Hitomi's dream is to become a dancer of modern music.

Fall 2007
Starring Shihori Kanjiya. The storyline focuses on the art of rakugo. Kiyomi's dream is to become a rakugoka, despite rakugo being a male-dominated field.

Spring 2007
Stars Manami Higa. Screenplay by Eriko Komatsu. Natsumi marries an heir of a high class ryokan, located in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. She then becomes the ryokan's manager.

Fall 2006
Based on a true story, Naomi Fujiyama plays the heroine role of Machiko Hanaoka – a 37-year-old woman who dreams of becoming a novelist.

Spring 2006
Starring Aoi Miyazaki. Sakurako's dream is to become a jazz pianist. Events take place in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture.

Fall 2005
Starring Eri Murakawa. Takes place in Yufuin, Ōita Prefecture. Haruka's goal is to become a travel agent, and moves to Osaka, leaving her father and sister behind, to achieve her dream.

Spring 2005
Yuika Motokariya stars as 15-year-old Kido Yū, living with her family in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. Yū faces tough times, and relies on the friendship of a horse to keep her spirits up.

Fall 2002
Starring Mao Miyaji. About a woman who studies to be a meteorologist.

Spring 2002
Sakura Matsushita is a third-generation Japanese-American, living in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her dream is to become an ALT teacher in Japan, and moves there to achieve her dream.

Fall 2001
Starring Chizuru Ikewaki. About a young woman striving to become a chef in Wakayama Prefecture.

Fall 2000
Starring Aya Okamoto. About a young woman involved in the Japanese film industry in Kyoto.

Spring 2000
Starring Tomoko Tabata. About a young woman whose fiancé leaves her, pregnant, at the altar. With her son, she leaves for Tsukiji to make it on her own.

Fall 1999
Starring Yūko Takeuchi. Asuka learns to become a wagashi maker, even though wagashi is a heavily male-dominated field.

Spring 1999
Starring Nagiko Tōno and Chieko Baisho. Follows the life of a woman, raised in a coal town in Hokkaido by a father who worked on the railroad, from the 1920s to the 1930s.

Fall 1998
Starring Miho Konishi. About a young woman in Osaka who helps resurrect a shipbuilding company.

Spring 1998
Starring Risa Sudo. About a young woman training to be a carpenter who, through her own family situation, learns about the need for a barrier-free world.

Fall 1997
Starring Yumiko Sato. About a young woman who hopes to become a sake brewer.

Spring 1997
Starring Misato Tanaka and Mansai Nomura. Based on the life of the beauty stylist Aguri Yoshiyuki, who married the novelist Eisuke Yoshiyuki and became the mother of the novelist Junnosuke Yoshiyuki and the actress Kazuko Yoshiyuki.

Fall 1996
About a female professional shogi player and her twin sister. Starring Hiromi Iwasaki and Maiko Kikuchi, with Kana Mikura and Mana Mikura (ManaKana) playing them as children.

Spring 1996
About a woman, played by Nanako Matsushima, striving to become a lawyer.

Fall 1995
Set in Hakata, the series is about a young man who wants to play rock music even though his father expects him to follow him in making Hakata ningyō.

Fall 1994
A year-long series, starring Narumi Yasuda. A successful screenwriter looks back on her life when she learns her husband has cancer.

Spring 1994
Starring Risa Junna. About the youngest of four sisters, all raised solely by their father, who wants to write children's books.

Fall 1993
Starring Naomi Hosokawa. A young woman, whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, lives through the hardships of postwar Japan.

Spring 1993
Starring Naho Toda. A woman works hard to become a good doctor even though she is separated from her husband.

Fall 1992
Starring Hikari Ishida. The storyline evolves around sumo – as the heroine become a nutritionist and works within the sumo system.

Spring 1992
Starring Pinko Izumi and Sachiko Sakurai. Chronicles the conflicts between a woman and her step-daughter in a hot springs town.

Spring 1991
Starred Kyōka Suzuki. A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.

Fall 1990
Set in an old Kyoto tsukemono store, this series depicted the conflicts between a woman, her daughter and her father-in-law.

Spring 1990
Starring Minoru Tanaka. About a man who developed an early television system.

Fall 1989
Starring Azusa Watanabe. About a female volleyball player who helps out the local community.