Koike Ayame

Ayame Koike (小池彩夢, Koike Ayame, born February 13, 1995) is a Japanese actress under the Sony Music Artists. Koike made her acting debut in the Japanese television drama Botan to Bara as Rika Nojima in 2004. In 2007, Koike appeared in NHK Educational TV's Yuhigaoka Boy Detectives (夕陽ヶ丘の探偵団,…

Tsugawa Masahiko

Tsugawa Masahiko (January 2, 1940 - August 4, 2018) was born in Nakagyo District, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, whose real name is Kato Masahiko. He is a right-wing actor, film director, acting producer, and critic. He was affiliated with the entertainment firm Grand Pa Production, and served…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

Matsu Takako

Matsu Takako, born June 10, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese stage and screen actress and pop singer/songwriter. She was born into a traditional Buyo house, and her Buyo name is Matsumoto Koka (Matsumoto Koka the First). Her father is Matsumoto Koshiro IX, Kabuki actor and head of the Buyo house;…

Yorozuya Kinnosuke

Yorozuya Kinnosuke was a Japanese kabuki actor. Born Ogawa Kinichi, son of kabuki actor Nakamura Tokizo III, he entered kabuki and became the first in the kabuki tradition to take the name Nakamura Kinnosuke. He took on his guild name Yorozuya as his surname in 1971. In addition to his kabuki activity,…

Yuki Saori

Saori Yuki is a Japanese singer and actress. She was born Akiko Yasuda in Kiryu, Gunma, Japan and raised in Yokohama. She started her singing career with her older sister Sachiko as a child singer. In 1969, Saori Yuki had a hit with "Yoake no Scat (Scat at dawn)", which sold 2 million units in two months,…

Fujiyama Ichiro

Fujiyama Ichiro was a Japanese singer, vocalist, composer, and conductor born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, He graduated from Tokyo Music School. He was active as a tenor national singer and popular singer with the orthodox vocal technique, singing method, anf music theory cultivated at Tokyo Music School,…

Kitaoji Kinya

Kitaoji Kinya, born February 23, 1943 in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, is a Japanese actor. He is the son of famous jidaigeki film star Utaemon Ichikawa, and graduated from Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences in Tokyo. Following his father's footsteps, Kitaoji's career is renowned…

Surona Bushi ni Shite Kure 〜 Kyoto Satsueijo Rapusodi 〜

9.0

Aired on NHK BS.

Shuu

Aired on NHK ETV. ~~ Adapted from the novel "Yuki Akari" (雪あかり) by Tai Yoko (田井洋子).

Africa Pole Pole

Aired on NHK BS2.

Boshi

Produced by NHK Hiroshima to commemorate its 80th anniversary. "Boshi" is set in Hiroshima and covers the lives of people affected by the bombing of its city.

Ishidate Tetsuo

Ishidate Tetsuo was a Japanese actor born in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. After working as a 13th gen member of the Haiyuza Theater Company and a member of the Bungakuza Theater Company, he made a big break in the 1970 TV drama "Oku-sama wa 18-sai". He starred in a number of family dramas in…

Sakura Hisako

Sakura Hisako, born Kanzaki Fujiko (神崎不二子) in Otemachi, Hiroshima, Japan, was a Japanese actress and former musume-yaku performer of the Takarazuka Girls' Revue (宝塚少女歌劇団). Later in life, she became a Buddhist nun under the name Ogasawara Nichio (小笠原日凰). She was also…

Hoso Hakubutsukan Kikippatsu

A ghost appears at the NHK Broadcasting Museum which is holding an exhibition for their 60th anniversary. Sakura Nozomi, the broadcast director of the program, has to exterminate it. (Source: Japanese = NHK || Translation…

Keisei Saimin no Otoko - Kobayashi Ichizou

6.0

Second of a 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK, this series documents the life of railway tycoon Kobayashi Ichizou, who established the famous all-women's…

Patissier Hansel Christmas no Maho

8.0

A spin-off drama from the regularly aired "Gretel's Magical Oven" which has brought you many stories related to sweets. (Source: NHK World Premium)

Taiga Dorama ga Umareta Hi

7.7

In 1962, Yamaoka Shinpei, a young assistant director at NHK's entertainment department, is suddenly ordered by the director to "make the biggest entertainment period drama in Japan that can rival the movies!" He and…

Seikogram: Tensei Shitara Senjichu no Jogakuseidatta Kudan

A modern-day actress reincarnates during the Pacific War, but with a smartphone in her hand. A series that conveys everyday life during the war through Instagram. (Source: Japanese = nhk.jp || Translation = MyDramaList)

Kohaku ga Umareta hi

7.6

After the war, the Occupation Forces’ General Headquarters was about to seize the broadcasting station, NHK, with the objective of directing its broadcasts in September 1945 (Showa 20). At that time, NHK’s director,…