1. Hiyokko (ひよっこ)
The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to Tokyo to work in order to earn extra money. However, her life completely changes when her father does not come back for the New Year. Mineko asks her family to let her go to Tokyo to find him and promises to send money home. In the autumn of 1964, she and two childhood friends Tokiko and Mitsuo are hired to start working at a small factory in Tokyo’s working class neighborhood. After work each day, Mineko searches for her father and gets disheartened at times. Mineko overcomes challenges and starts to lay down roots in Tokyo as she experiences many meetings and farewells amid the laughter and tears with regulars, people of the shopping street, friends, and colleagues. But will she be able to find her father?
It has an average vote of 8.2 on TMDB.
2. Musume to Watashi (娘と私)
A television serial that was in turn adapted from a radio series and a novel, My Daughter And I featured a Japanese novelist who is married to a French woman who have one daughter. The man and his daughter begin a new life when the woman dies. Having difficulty spending time with his daughter, the man sends his daughter to a Christian boarding school. He remarries and brings his daughter back home. After the end of the World War his lot improves professionally, yet his second wife dies.
3. Niji (虹)
Starring Yōko Minamida as a woman who supported her family during and after World War II. All episodes are missing from the NHK archives, though a brief clip does survive as part of a contemporary news segment documenting the drama's production.
4. Nobuko to Obachan (信子とおばあちゃん)
The 9th NHK Asadora. Starring Naoko Otani as a young woman living with her grandmother.
5. Ashita Koso (あしたこそ)
The 8th NHK Asadora. Starring Yumiko Fujita in a family drama. The first Asadora filmed in color.
6. Tabiji (旅路)
The 7th NHK Asadora. Starring Tadashi Yokouchi in a narrative about an employee of the national railroad living through 50 years of modern history with his wife.
7. Ohanahan (おはなはん)
The 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a family by herself.
8. Tamayura (たまゆら)
The 5th NHK Asadora. Starring Chishuu Ryuu as an old man who begins to travel after he retires. From a story written for television by Yasunari Kawabata.
9. Akatsuki (あかつき)
The 3rd NHK Asadora. Starring Shin Saburi as a professor who quits the university to become a painter.
10. Ashita no Kaze (あしたの風)
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.
11. Miotsukushi (澪つくし)
In the early Showa era, the town of Choshi in Chiba Prefecture was divided by the conflicts between the worlds of "land" and "sea". Born to Kyubei Bando, the owner of a long-established soy sauce brewery, and his mistress Rui, Kaworu was taken in by her father and raised as a prim and proper lady. As she grew up, she fell in love with Sokichi, the eldest son of an established fisherman; alas, their two families were in conflict. This is a story of pure love between two people that grew beyond the boundaries of the old customs that they were brought up with. It is a drama that depicts their turbulent journey of love and the bonds of the people from an old and established family working tirelessly to protect their naturally brewed soy sauce business through the ups and downs.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
12. Ochoyan (おちょやん)
In the end of Meiji era, Takei Chiyo was born in a poor family in Osaka, and was sent to a theatre tea room as a servant when she was 9 years old. There, she was attracted by the world of theatre comedy. She grows up to be an actor and marries to Amami Ippei , but the war broke out and she was forced to stay away from acting for a while. However, when she comes back again, her acting in a radio drama impresses many people and makes herself one of the leading actors in western Japan.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
13. Eenyobo (ええにょぼ)
A woman works hard to become a good doctor even though she is separated from her husband.
14. Hirari (ひらり)
The 48th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Hirari. Story's settings includes Tokyo. Hirari is a young and energetic girl. She loves the sports, sumo, very much and would like to find a career. However, there isn't any suitable career for a female in this area. Nevertheless, she still works hard towards her dream, and at last, she gets a chance to become a sumo stable's nutrition consultant.in this field. However, there isn't any suitable career for a female in this area. Nevertheless, she still works hard towards her dream, and at last, she gets a chance to become a sumo stable's nutrition consultant.
15. Onna wa dokyo (おんなは度胸)
The 47th NHK Asadora chronicles the conflicts between a woman and her step-daughter in a hot springs town.
16. Kimi no na wa (君の名は)
A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. Rinrin to (凜凜と)
The 44th NHK Asadora about a man who developed an early television system.
18. Wakko no kin medaru (和っこの金メダル)
The 43th NHK Asadora about a female volleyball player who helps out the local community. Starring Azusa Watanabe.
19. 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.
20. 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.