Agri

Overview

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.

Cast

Misato Tanaka

Mochizuki Aguri

Mansai Nomura

Mochizuki Eisuke

Kōtarō Satomi

Yuriko Hoshi

Yūko Natori

Sawa Suzuki