Yanchakure

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."

• 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 KaibeOhiko Shigemitsu
• Mr. OkureOkuda Kanichi