Rumor has it that NHK's taiga drama series — year-long Sunday night staples — may be cursed. Taiga (literally "big river," but here refers to a historical saga) has been an institution since the first ...

"Sanada Maru" of NHK Taiga Drama begins with the Sanada family serving Takeda Katsumi, but "Sengoku Musou ~ Masuda Maru ~" is a story from the place where my father Masayuki was serving as a vassal of ...

An article that appeared in December in the Yomiuri Shimbun weighed the prospects for the 2016 edition of NHK's year-long historical taiga drama series, which premiered Jan. 10. "Sanada Maru" is the ...

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Since 1963, NHK’s taiga dramas, or annual year-long historical series, have been a staple of Japanese television. Constantly battling competition from commercial channels, this year NHK has resorted ...

Actress Honami Suzuki, 43, who dropped out of show business in 1999, will be returning in next year's NHK Taiga historical drama "Gō: Hime-tachi no Sengoku" (Ladies of the Sengoku period). Suzuki, who ...

We started the year in Japan, where annual historical taiga drama What Will You Do, Ieyasu? was generating hype long before Shogun. NHK Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in ...