is an autobiography written by Nunoe Mura and published in 2008. It details her life as the wife of the

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Shigeru Mizuki, especially their struggles against poverty before he became successful. It has sold over 500,000 copies. In 2010, it was adapted into an

Asadora , colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Ta ...

television series starring

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, and a film starring Kazue Fukiishi.

Television series

Cast

as Fumie Murai * Osamu Mukai as Shigeru Murai * Takumi Saito

Film

* Kazue Fukiishi as Nunoe Mura *

Kankurō Kudō is a Japanese people, Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, Film director, director, actor and member of the theater company ''Otona Keikaku''. He won the 'Best Screenplay' award at the 2002 in film, 2002 Japanese Academy Awards for ''Go (2001 film), ...

as Shigeru Mura * Maki Sakai

References

External links

TV drama official website

Film official website
* 2008 non-fiction books 2010 Japanese television series debuts 2010 Japanese television series endings Asadora Biographies adapted into films Television shows based on books GeGeGe no Kitarō Japanese autobiographers {{Japan-tv-prog-stub