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1. Mizuiro no toki (水色の時)

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%.

2. Nonchan no yume (ノンちゃんの夢)

The 40th NHK Asadora starring Fujita Tomoko. It is about a woman who struggles to survive after World War II and starts a magazine.

3. Hassai Sensei (はっさい先生)

The 39th NHK Asadora drama is Hassai-sensei. A novice teacher in 1930s Osaka learns that there is more to education than mere instruction. Though her tenure is interrupted by first marriage and later World War II, she begins a quest for "ideal education" after the war.

4. Chotchan (チョッちゃん)

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

5. Miyako no kaze (都の風)

The 37th NHK Asadora. A woman from Kyoto moves to Nara and runs a ryokan and then enters the fashion industry.

6. Ichiban Daiko (いちばん太鼓)

The 35th NHK Asadora about a man who enters the world of popular theater.

7. Niji wo Oru (虹を織る)

The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theater troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyougo Prefecture, Japan. Women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals, and sometimes stories adapted from shoujo manga and Japanese folktales.

8. Natchan no shashinkan (なっちゃんの写真館)

The 25th NHK Asadora. Nishiki Natsuko is a woman who strives to become a photographer.

9. Ayu no uta (鮎のうた)

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

10. Watashi wa umi (わたしは海)

The 22nd NHK Asadora. Starring Tomoko Aihara. About a woman raising war orphans.

11. Otei-chan (おていちゃん)

The 21st NHK Asadora. Starring Chikako Yuri in a dramatization of the life of Sadako Sawamura.

12. Kazamidori (風見鶏)

The 20th NHK Asadora. Starring Harumi Arai as a woman who marries a German and starts a bakery in Kobe.

13. Ichibanboshi (いちばん星)

The 19th NHK Asadora. A dramatization of the life of the singer Chiyako Sato. Michiko Godai replaced Haruna Takase in the lead two months into the series when Takase became ill.</p><p></p><p>Adapted from the novel "Aa Tokyo Koshinkyoku" by Yuki Ryoichi.

14. Hi no kuni ni (火の国に)

The 18th NHK Asadora. Starring Keiko Suzuka about a woman who strives to become a landscape gardener.

15. Kokoru wa Itsumo Ramune Iro (心はいつもラムネ色)

The 33rd NHK Asadora. Starring Eisaku Shindou as a man who loves manzai . Average rating of 40.2%</p><p></p><p>Based on the life of a famous two-man comedy act writer, Akita Minoru, who loved comedy more than anything. His life itself was full of wit and humor, love and friendship.

16. Romansu (ロマンス)

The 32nd NHK Asadora. Starring Takaaki Enoki as a young man who becomes a film director. The first Asadora with a male lead since 1967.

It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.

17. Yôi don (よーいドン)

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

18. Haikara-san (ハイカラさん)

The 29th NHK Asadora. Starring Satomi Tezuka as a woman who starts a hotel in the Meiji era.

19. Honjitsu mo Seiten Nari (本日も晴天なり)

Katsuragi Motoko started as an NHK announcer, became a reportage writer after the war, and then an author. This story is about a woman's struggle to find her life's purpose and to survive.</p><p></p><p>The 28th NHK asadora, set in the Showa era and location included Tokyo.

20. Mansaku no hana (まんさくの花)

The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is buried by deep snow.