Leven en dood op het land

The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamajima Island, Okinawa on May 15, 1972, the day when Okinawa was returned to Japan from the U.S. Eleven years later, Kamimura Shizuko and her two sons, Kazuya and Fumiya, from Tokyo come to stay as the guests of a small inn run by Eri's family. Eri's fun-loving, yet eccentric family welcomes them warmly. However, Eri is shocked to hear one of the sons, Kazuya is terminally ill and Shizuko and her sons came to Okinawa to spend his last moment together in beautiful nature. Fumiya, Kazuya's younger brother, and Eri promise to marry each other someday. However after Kazuya's death, Fumiya and his mother leave the island to go back to Tokyo. Years later, they are reunited, Eri as a nurse and Fumiya, a doctor, working at the same hospital in Tokyo. The story's settings include Okinawa, Naha, and Tokyo.

A lowly servant's daughter captivates the attention of the emperor with her beautiful and virtuous ways. But will she be able to survive in a court full of manipulative courtiers and their subversive plots?

A wife attempts to get rid of several of her husband's mistresses, without her husband knowing, and she is helped by a man's acquaintance who turns out to have feelings for the wife.