1 Season
156 Episode
Agri - Season 1
The 56th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Agri. Story's settings include Okayama and Tokyo (Ichigaya). This renzoku chronicles the life of a Showa period hairdresser, and is based on a true life story of Moshizuki Agri. Agri has worked for over 70 years as a beautician. She is a successful business woman who survived the war by becoming a farmer. During the war, going to the beauty salon was considered a frivolity, so many such businesses went bankrupt as Japan suffered from the energy spent as all the yen was fueled into the war effort.
- Year: 1997
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Drama, Family
- Studio: NHK
- Keyword: asadora
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- Cast: Misato Tanaka, Mansai Nomura, Kotaro Satomi, Yuriko Hoshi, Yûko Natori, Sawa Suzuki