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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.

The 95th NHK Asadora is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. In the wake of wartime devastation, she works hard toward making children's clothes for a living, and later establishes a first-ever children's goods store in Japan. -- NHK

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

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 war. She stays home and takes on the role of other war widows, managing business and a Chinese restaurant.

Kano is known as a "cocoon child" whose father is an agriculturist. Her mother disappeared when she was little and since then Kano has been wondering why her mother left her thus changing the shape of her life.

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

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

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

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 poor family after the war.

Suzume is a girl born to a family running a small restaurant in Gifu Prefecture. She loses her hearing in one ear from a disease. Encouraged by her loving parents and childhood friend, she lives through an eventful life with a tenacious spirit.

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

The 47th NHK Asadora chronicles the conflicts between a woman and her step-daughter in a hot springs town.

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

The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother.

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

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

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 care of their 5-year-old child alone. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Fumiko Hayashi.

The 24th NHK Asadora. Starring Senri Yamazaki as a woman who makes her life at a fishing port.

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 six-month Asadora. Average rating of 40.1%.