The 76th NHK Asadora is Dondobare. Locations include Morioka, Iwate. Natsumi is the 23-year-old daughter of a master baker in Yokohama and in training with her father to become a pastry chef. She lives with her parents and younger brother in Yokohama. One day she travels to Iwate Prefecture with her boyfriend Masaki for his grandmother Katsuno's 77th birthday. While they are there, Katsuno, head okami of a famous ryokan in Morioka City, becomes ill and asks Masaki to return to run the ryokan. Natsumi returns to Yokohama and later Masaki visits, asking her to disregard their earlier plans to get married because he will return to Morioka as requested by Katsuno. However, Natsumi surprises him with a vow to become the ryokan's okami. Is Natsumi in for clear skies as suggested by the series name? ---groink

Hataya returned to Namchiev Island after the news that her father got shot to death. She took over her family's illegal business and she wants to transform it to be legal. During a big meeting, Hataya almost got shot but Tay helped her. He is her uncle's new driver. To protect her, Tay becomes her bodyguard. She doesn't like him much due to his personality and they are careful working together, but they eventually develop good feelings towards each other.

The story revolves around who Tay really is and who are the bad guys behind the death of Hataya's father.

The drama follows the stories of several hard-working and life-loving people, who with courage and a strong will try to face the rapidly changing times. Facing turning points in Chinese history, they embark on a road to find a way to live a life full of dignity and happiness, achieving their goals through several reforms.

An upbeat family-oriented TV miniseries with a mishmash of different generations and different attitudes towards relationships. The difficulties that arise between mother and daughter mostly due to the men they are having a relationship with becomes the central plot that illustrates the challenges that single moms and divorcees face in today’s society. Their lives and the lives of the people they are connected to are depicted in a way that viewers can relate to through a fuzzy warm feeling called love.

A story of the Feng family and the love troubles among its three children.

While studying at university, Zhao Mosheng fell in love at first sight with law student He Yichen. Through various incidents where Mosheng “stalked” Yichen on campus, Mosheng’s cheerful personality charmed Yichen, and they slowly became college sweethearts. When Yichen’s foster sister Yimei challenged Mosheng for Yichen’s attention, Mosheng turned directly to Yichen for clarification, but did not expect to receive a cold response from him. Mistaking that Yichen and Yimei are a couple, Mosheng followed her father’s arrangements and moved to the United States to continue her studies. Seven years later, Mosheng – who is now a professional photographer – returns to China, and coincidentally bumps into the unforgettable Yichen. Since the seven years they broke up, many people stand in the way of these star-crossed lovers: Classmate Xiao Xiao who has never given up on her crush on Yichen; half-sister Yimei; Mosheng’s marriage in United States; the unrelentingly infatuated ex-husband Ying Hui; as well as the financial grudges between the couple’s fathers. All these situations continue to affect the two former lovers, but instead, these misunderstandings and challenges give them a better comprehension of the love they have missed over the past seven years.

Hirano will portray Gonda Mari, a former aspiring idol and idol fanatic who has memorized every detail of Japan's idol history since the 1980s. As a teacher in the teen comedy, Hirano's character advises the "I Want to Become an Idol Club" at an all-girls finishing school. The five singers of 9nine will play the members of the "I Want to Become an Idol Club." In the story, the girls' senior student scouted them to debut as idols at the school's culture festival. The singers then form the club and devise outlandish lessons to train themselves as performers.

Contract worker Lee Yeon Seo daydreams about teaching her manager a lesson, but accidentally acts out her fantasy on none other than top Hallyu star Kang Joon Hyuk. Thinking she killed him but afraid to be labeled a murderer, she takes him home and prepares to get rid of the body. But Joon Hyuk wakes up and seeing her preparations thinks he has been kidnapped by a murderous psychopath. Seeing no other option, she keeps him hostage so he doesn't turn her in to the police. How long can she keep him hidden and can she ever convince him she's not an evil person?