Season 1 • Episode 156
LatestRin Tachibana, nicknamed Hanekonma, grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Together with her parents, her sister and brother, and her grandparents, the story revolves around the Tachibana family and Rin's life throughout many years.
Acting
Yuki Saito's decades-long performance ages like wine
Production
Meticulous period detail across 40+ years of Japanese history
Writing
Asadora format masters the art of patient storytelling
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hanekonma helped cement the asadora format: 15-minute morning dramas following one woman's life, designed for working-class Japanese women.
Ken Watanabe appeared here years before Hollywood discovered him in The Last Samurai—this is his origin story as Japan's everyman patriarch.
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