Starting in January and broadcast weekly for an entire year, taiga period dramas (“taiga” literally meaning “big river”) are the crown jewels of public broadcaster NHK’s programming lineup and a ...

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever ...

TOKYO — Pubcaster NHK announced a draft for its next five-year plan on Friday, while soliciting viewers’ opinions on its website for the final version. Details, however, were in short supply. NHK said ...

Shikamo basu wa hashitteiku was the first full-fledged TV drama using films produced in 1959, which heralded the beginning of film-drama making at NHK. It was a tough transition because all we had ...

Yagira Yuya, the Japanese actor who won the acting prize in Cannes for his role in Koreeda Hirokazu’s “Nobody Knows,” heads the cast of “Gift of Fire,” which stands as the first internationally ...

NHK Enterprises (NEP) and the South Korean production house Big Ocean ENM have inked a deal for an adaptation of the drama I’ll Still Love You Ten Years from Now. I’ll Still Love You Ten Years from ...

It was reported on October 11 by the Japanese media that the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) will no longer be airing Korean dramas. According to the report, the network first started airing ...