TELEVISION SERIES

Fairy Tales in Court

A television drama series aimed at pupils from Year 5 and 6 of primary school through to sixth form, which has been broadcast on NHK Educational Television since 2015. Using well-known fairy tales as its subject matter and based on the premise ‘What if the protagonists of these fairy tales were put on trial…?’, the series explores the lay judge system through a courtroom drama that depicts the characters being tried in a modern courtroom from the perspective of the lay judges.