
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."
StatusEnded
TypeScripted
Original LanguageJapanese
Network

Season 1 of Yanchakure premiered on October 5, 1998

小西美帆
水嶋渚

八千草薫
水嶋ハル

柄本明
水嶋钦一

藤真利子
柏木京子

高橋和也
大庭高志

利重剛
木暮勇

海部剛史
Ohiko Shigemitsu

Mr. Okure
Okuda Kanichi