A stop-motion animated TV series based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, featuring puppet art by Kihachirō Kawamoto. This is a historical picture scroll depicting various human characters, breathtaking battles and political struggles from the rise to fall of the Heike clan.

A mysterious humanistic period drama, setting in the Edo Period. As Okappiki, unofficial collaborators who played a marginal role in police functions, Moshichi (Takahashi Hideki) solves a number of mysterious incidents that occur in downtown Edo.

Cooking enthusiast Remi Hirano cooks simple and delicious dishes one after another during the live broadcast. The program is aired irregularly, mainly during the year-end and New Year's holidays, national holidays, and substitute holidays.

This program will explain how the objects around us came to be in the way they are in. It is a new type of talk entertainment program where viewers enjoy the "exhilaration of thinking" as they solve puzzles in the studio to find out why "shapes" are the way they are.

A music variety show naming after Sanma Akashiya

A talk show about the life perspectives of the guest couples.

This is a human drama that captures the lives of Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam who has been told that she does not have long to live due to radiation exposure in her body, and people of good will who have dreams but can only live clumsily.

Naoki (Nomaguchi Toru), middle-aged bachelor, has had no successful experiences in his life. His only purpose in life is to spend time alone in the VR world of a game "Twilight" as a girl (Kurasawa Anna) in school uniform. In the lonely world of the unpopular game, one day he meets a beautiful avatar "Honami", a naive and beautiful girl. Naoki, a socially awkward, is bewildered but gradually becomes attracted to Honami.

Adapted from the novel short story collection "Yuming Tribute Stories" inspired by the songs of Matsutoya Yumi.

World-class magicians perform a series of top-notch magic tricks. But the real fun begins afterward! Guests in the studio ask the magicians to perform magic from behind. How far can the magicians go with their unreasonable demands on a stage with tricks and gimmicks? A magic show of real courage!

This program presents unique and famous scenes from NHK's archival programs with narrated commentary and later interviews with the cast and others involved.

"You don't know!" That there are still hidden, exquisite dishes in Japan. This is a special gourmet program in which top food experts search for "treasured dishes" from all over Japan and decide the grand prix.

Men from different backgrounds became friends at a young age, and because of this they became conflicted in their respective positions, became enemies, and crossed paths, but deep inside there was surely a friendship that has not changed in the past 40 years...

Hard-boiled suspense drama series about a detective feared as the "Shinjuku Shark" who bravely stands up to evil.

Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashioned master and his hot-tempered, brash apprentice growing up among the warm-hearted people of downtown Tokyo.

Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establishing a common national spoken language, this humorous drama focuses on how the national language used today was created.

A former couple, separated for over 20 years, were reunited after being told their son had only 3 months to live. What should they do as parents? As they worried, they soon began to feel the weight of their family ties...

Humanistic detective stories that took place in an inn called 'Kawasemi'.

Senkichi Mizuta, a pharmaceutical company employee, and Shuzo Kadokura, a war profiteer, are diametrically opposed in appearance and personality, but are best friends. Kadokura secretly loves Mizuta's wife, Tami, and both Mizuta and Tami are aware of it. The drama depicts the subtle relationship between the two men and the people around them against the backdrop of the times and customs of the early Showa period, in which both are aware of each other's love, but no one speaks of it.

Henmi Ayumi is a nurse working on the front lines in the convalescent ward of a hospital, where she tends to patients who have either a few months left to live or have difficulties in daily life due to certain medical conditions or dementia. As she witnesses the life and death of a variety of patients, she strives to make their days in hospital the best they can possibly be despite the circumstances. Hirono Seiji is a doctor who transfers from the general ward to the convalescent ward on a part-time basis, and along with Henmi he becomes involved in the affairs of the patients and their families.