Unbound (TV series)

Unbound (べらぼう〜蔦重栄華乃夢噺〜, Berabou Tsutajū Eiga no Yume-banashi)^[1]is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Ryusei Yokohama as Tsutaya Jūzaburō. The series is the 64th NHK taiga drama.^[2][3][4]

In the mid-18th century Japan, the Rōjū Tanuma Okitsugu prioritized commerce over agriculture to rebuild the nation's finances. As the economy improved, a relatively liberal atmosphere emerged among the common people, fostering cultural development. One of the central figures in this cultural movement was Tsutaya Jūzaburō, a publisher. However, when the era transitioned to Matsudaira Sadanobu's governance from Tanuma's, stricter controls on entertainment were imposed, causing hardship for Jūzaburō. Even so, he remained undeterred, discovering and making talents such as Utamaro, Hokusai and Sharaku famous.

• Ryusei Yokohama as Tsutaya Jūzaburō

• Ai Hashimoto as Tei, Jūzaburō's wife
• Katsumi Takahashi as Surugaya, Jūzaburō's foster father
• Naoko Iijima as Fuji, Jūzaburō's foster mother
• Aoi Nakamura as Jirobei, Surugaya's son

• Kōtarō Satomi as Suwaraya Ichibei
• Shunsuke Kazama as Tsuruya Kiemon
• Masahiko Nishimura as Nishimura Yohachi, Jūzaburō's rival
• Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Urokogataya Magobei
• Ryota Miura as Urokogataya Chōbei, Magobei's son
• Tateto Serizawa as Koizumi Chūgorō
• Rintaro Mizusawa as Tomeshirō
• Yu Tokui as Tōhachi
• Yasushi Kawabata as Kashiwara-ya

• Ken Yasuda as Hiraga Gennai
• Shota Sometani as Kitagawa Utamaro
• Tekken as Isoda Koryūsai
• Atsushi Hashimoto as Kitao Shigemasa
• Tomoya Maeno as Katsukawa Shunshō
• Ryo Kimura as Hezutsu Tōsaku
• Yūta Furukawa as Santō Kyōden, a.k.a Kitao Masanobu
• Amane Okayama as Koikawa Harumachi, a.k.a Kurahashi Itaru
• Kanichiro as Tomimoto Umanosuke II
• Shigehiro Yamaguchi as Tōrai Sanna
• Bun'ichi Hamanaka as Akera Kankō
• Tsurutaro Kataoka as Toriyama Sekien

• Ken Watanabe as Tanuma Okitsugu
• Hio Miyazawa as Tanuma Okitomo, Okitsugu's son
• Shuntaro Miyao as Tanuma Okimune, Okitsugu's nephew
• Hidekazu Mashima as Tokugawa Ieharu, the 10th shōgun
• Rin Takanashi as Lady Chiho (Renkō-in), Iemoto's mother
• Tomoya Oku as Tokugawa Iemoto, Ieharu and Chiho's son
• Kōji Ishizaka as Matsudaira Takechika
• Toma Ikuta as Hitotsubashi Harusada
• Motoki Ochiai as Shimizu Shigeyoshi
• Kokoro Terada as Tayasu Masamaru
• Mari Hanafusa as Hōren-in
• Yūma Yamoto as Sano Masakoto
• Hisashi Yoshizawa as Matsumoto Hidemochi
• Nakamura Hayato as Hasegawa Heizo
• Taizo Harada as Miura Shōji
• Kazuyuki Aijima as Matsudaira Yasuyoshi
• Kenta Kiritani as Ōta Nanpo, a.k.a Yomo no Akara
• Shuntaro Yanagi as Tsuchiyama Sōjirō
• Jingi Irie as Tayasu Haruaki

Ōoku

• Ai Tominaga as Takaoka
• Kurara Emi as Ōsaki

• Fuka Koshiba as Hananoi (Segawa V)
• Haruka Fukuhara as Tagasode
• Miki Mizuno as Ine
• Ryo Tamaki as Toyoshima
• Sayu Kubota as Matsunoi
• Karin Ono as Utsusemi
• Ayaka Higashino as Shizuyama
• Runa Nakashima as Chidori
• Rino Katase as Kiku
• Yumi Adachi as Ritsu
• Reika Manaki as Asagao
• Momiji Yamamura as Shige
• Bokuzō Masana as Matsuba-ya
• Kazuhiro Yamaji as Ōgi-ya
• Atsushi Itō as Daimonji-ya
• Towa Watanabe as Karamaru
• Moka Otsuka as Kamegiku
• Masaki Hiradate as Katsuyama
• Hikari Kabashima as Tokiwagi
• Haruka Kinoshita as Tamakawa
• Chisato Someya as Ureshino

• Haruka Ayase as Kurosuke Inari / narrator
• Hayato Ichihara as Toriyama Kengyō
• Kai Inowaki as Oda Shinnosuke
• Toshinori Omi as Hirasawa Tsunemasa
• Naomasa Musaka as Hanjirō
• Nene Yoshitaka as a corpse
• Kanna Fuji as a corpse
• Rin Yoda as a corpse
• So Yamanaka as Sugita Genpaku
• James Onoda as a bathhouse owner
• Kensuke Sasaki as a boatman
• Toshiki Ayata as the owner of a charcoal shop
• Katsuya Takagi as the man with a scar on his face

• Official website (in Japanese)