Yanchakure (1998)

Synopsis

The 59th NHK Asadora Drama is Yanchakure. Location includes Osaka. In Osaka, "yanchakure" is a bit of an old word which is used to describe tomboyish or mischievous young girls. Mizushima Nagisa happens to be such a girl, that, no matter how well-intentioned her motives nor how hard she tries, Nagisa just seems to end up failing. In fact, she has failed at different things in her life so many times that she has come to see it as a source of personal strength, her philosophy being one of, "It's natural for a human being to fail many times in the course of their life and thanks to those failures we can become adults."

Series Information

First Aired

1998

Last Aired

1999

Seasons

1

Episodes

150

Episode Length

15 min

Genre

Drama, Family

Network

NHK G

Status

Ended

Top Cast

Miho Konishi

水嶋渚

Kaoru Yachigusa

水嶋ハル

Akira Emoto

水嶋钦一

Mariko Fuji

柏木京子

Kazuya Takahashi

大庭高志

Go Riju

木暮勇

Tsuyoshi Kaibe

Ohiko Shigemitsu

Mr. Okure

Okuda Kanichi

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