Top NHK Yorudora Doramas

Higurashi Masanao (commonly known as Masa) is a former Yankee who has a legend of winning fights against 100 opponents, but now he runs a small izakaya "Paisen" near the sea. With ...more

Since his father died, manga artist Ichiro has barely scraped by, forced to support his two younger siblings on just a middle school education. He doesn't even have time to learn how ...more

Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during his lifetime, some of which are included in textbooks and continue to be read even today. ...more

Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she finds herself making way more than she can eat by herself. And so she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who also lives alone. What ...more

Yamazaki Ako is a 29-year-old single mother working as a hostess to raise her 10-year-old daughter. Since April 2020, the nightclub business has been badly hit by COVID-19, while there has been ...more

The hero, nearly killed by carbon monoxide poisoning while on a solo assignment in another city, loses his memory and can no longer recognize his own family. Unconsciously, his feet carry him ...more

A residential area that could be anywhere in Saitama Prefecture. People with various circumstances lived there. One day, a female inmate escapes from a women’s prison and is found heading for the ...more

At the Keyakidai High School, where there'll be a graduation ceremony in three days, they encountered a kidnapping incident in which their popular English teacher, Mizuguchi Risako, was abducted. Kurokawa Yoshiki receives ...more

A woman who's tired of failing at love, decides to take a break from it and focus her energy on her job. At least, that's what she thinks until she crosses paths ...more

The 6th NHK Yorudora is Karuta Queen. This drama focuses on the "sport" of competitive karuta. However, this card game uses the Hyakunin Isshu as its playing cards. The new year is ...more

25-year-old Ichikawa Eiko works in general affairs. Even when she does her job properly, she doesn't get much recognition and is often scolded for even small failures. When she's depressed, she says, ...more

Kasamatsu Hotaru, a fourth year college student, is failing terribly in her job hunt. She has a natural enemy, Kagiya Miharu, who attended elementary, junior high and high school alongside her, and ...more

Amihama Nami, a self-proclaimed "frank-mannered" woman, works at a publishing company. She is self-centered, never reflects on herself, and is a new kind of dark heroine who overcomes any difficulties with her ...more

Hiroshi is a seemingly ordinary young man that works part-time at a gyoza shop, but the reality is he’s actually a fortress for a planet! Each of his movements is produced by ...more

A lawyer, fortune teller, and actress all three sisters successful in life except in matters of love. When dad brings home a handsome man from work who will win his love?

The year is 1979, and Miyamoto Takumi's life suddenly changes when he meets a mysterious young man named Tokio at a park in Asakusa. The young man says, "I've come from the ...more

In the summer of 1982, Sakurai Masahiko returns home to Nagasaki so he can participate in sending off the floating lanterns during O-bon. It's the first O-bon since his beloved aunt, Setsuko, ...more

The 21st NHK Yorudora, Roomshare no Onna centers on recently divorced Usami Usako, who also has a young son named Tarou. Usako leaves Tarou at her mother's home in Nagano to begin ...more

Todoroki retires and his son moves out of the house. He is left alone with his wife for the first and all they do is bicker. Can he save his crumbling life?

A woman who had decided to meet her soulmate through arranged marriage meetings (omiai) while attending her 30th one she wonders if she will ever meet him.

The 8th NHK Yorudora focuses on a woman who attends a training school to become an okami, a mistress, at a Japanese-style inn. The protagonist, Yoshino Natsuko, is unhappy when she's transferred ...more

Kei is a young, not-so-successful screenwriter. One day, she finds an unexpected visitor at the door of her apartment. A little girl named Niko, a secret child of a famous actress Mifuyu ...more

Set in a pub in the office town of Nagoya City "Banzaiya", the workmen of OL workers and OLs working in the office town, finished into a heart-warming, human-like drama that intertwined ...more

Yuko Amano who works at a food company while being a daughter of a rice shop, is not lucky. Meanwhile, the men team that Sachiko fell in love at first sight appeared ...more

Yoshiko plans a vacation with fiance Kitaoka, when suddenly he is unable to attend. She goes by herself and winds up double booked with Oda Ryuunosuke.

This is a revenge story about a woman and the man that hurt her. ~~ Adapted from the novel “The Other Side of Midnight” by Sidney Sheldon.

Ruuko has just been assigned to an elite position within the first-class trading company she works for, but quickly tires of the monotonous work her boss gives her. Then, she suddenly encounters ...more

A common law marriage couple must live a part due to repairs on the condo where they resided. They struggle to define their relationship beyond just living together.

Sequel to Hanako-san Lives in a Locker, NHKs 3 yorudora, Hanako-san is a ghost who lives in a locker at the company and only OLs can see her.

Kishida Shinichi, a freelance writer, has an annual income of only 2 million yen. He meets Obayashi Rikako, a fashionable business woman who makes 60 million yen per year, and falls in ...more

Minamikoko passes the fireman's examination which she took when the company she worked for suddenly went bankrupt. Natsuko, who was not supposed to be a firefighter by nature, is always clumsy and ...more

Satomi Yuu works as a home care giver and her motto to the family and patients is Donmai. ~~ Based on a manga by Yajima Masao.

Reiko Sawatari starts to experience menopause and gets fired from her job due to dizziness. She then returns to her hometown where she finds a new perspective on life.

The 14th NHK Yorudora is Chotto matte, Kami-sama, centers on a housewife who suddenly dies in an accident and takes over the body of a high-school girl. ~~ Adapted from the manga ...more

Sasaki Aoko has lived in an unhappy marriage for years and still remembers her former lover. Knowing about her husband's affair, she gets into one as well. During a trip with her ...more

A new midwife midwife Kameyama Yona (Kameyama · Hana Takano) is involved in various troubles and grows as a midwife It is a comedy that depicts the process pleasantly.

A story of five hopeless housewives who form an acapella group. They travel around bringing their music to the countryside.