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  • 2018
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    Half Blue Sky

    Half Blue Sky

    7.80 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 1983
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    Oshin

    Oshin

    6.70 1983 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    Asa ga Kita

    Asa ga Kita

    8.00 2015 HD

    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,...

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  • 2007
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    Chiritotechin

    Chiritotechin

    8.00 2007 HD

    The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl...

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  • 2014
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    Massan

    Massan

    8.00 2014 HD

    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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  • 2010
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    Teppan

    Teppan

    8.00 2010 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    Mare

    Mare

    7.70 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Hanako & Anne

    Hanako & Anne

    7.30 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Jun to Ai

    Jun to Ai

    1 2012 HD

    Jun to Ai is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on October 1, 2012 and was broadcast until March 30, 2013. It is about a girl named Jun...

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  • 1996
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    Hideyoshi

    Hideyoshi

    9.50 1996 HD

    A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga....

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  • 2002
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    Sakura

    Sakura

    1 2002 HD

    Sakura is a Japanese serialized morning television drama that aired on NHK from April 1 to September 28 of 2002. The series totalled 156...

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  • 2016
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    Toto Nee-chan

    Toto Nee-chan

    8.50 2016 HD

    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....

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  • 2023
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    Boogie Woogie

    Boogie Woogie

    1 2023 HD

    Sets in the 1910s, this is the story of Hanada Suzuko, a young girl who grew up in a family that owned a bathhouse in downtown Osaka. From a young...

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  • 2023
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    What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

    What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

    7.70 2023 HD

    The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born...

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  • 2006
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    Junjo Kirari

    Junjo Kirari

    8.00 2006 HD

    The 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of "pure-hearted Kirari." The story is set in Okazaki City, Aichi...

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  • 2005
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    Fight

    Fight

    1 2005 HD

    Fight is a story about fifteen year old Yuu, whose family becomes separated after an incident involving her father's spring factory. With her undying...

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  • 2011
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    Phi Brain: Puzzle of God

    Phi Brain: Puzzle of God

    7.30 2011 HD

    Phi Brain: Puzzle of God is a 2011 Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise. The first two series aired on NHK Educational TV between...

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  • 2005
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    Kaze no Haruka

    Kaze no Haruka

    1 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 2019
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    Natsuzora

    Natsuzora

    7.00 2019 HD

    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,...

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  • 2013
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    Kumokiri Nizaemon

    Kumokiri Nizaemon

    8.50 2013 HD

    During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo,...

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