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 ...
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 ...