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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taiga drama is the name NHK gives to the annual, year-long historical fiction television series it broadcasts in Japan. Beginning in 1963 with the black-and-white Hana no Shōgai, starring kabuki actor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in ...

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 ...