Reach Beyond the Blue Sky

is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Ryo Yoshizawa as Shibusawa Eiichi, a Japanese industrialist widely known today as the "father of Japanese capitalism". The series is the 60th NHK taiga drama, premiered on February 14, 2021.

Shibusawa family

 * Ryo Yoshizawa as Shibusawa Eiichi (also known as Eijirō, Eiichirō, Tokudayū, Tokutarō)
 * Masahito Kobayashi as young Eiichi
 * Kaoru Kobayashi as Shibusawa Ichirōemon, Eiichi's father
 * Emi Wakui as Shibusawa Ei, Eiichi's mother
 * Eri Murakawa as Shibusawa Naka, Eiichi's older sister
 * Nanoha Oda as young Naka
 * Ryōko Fujino as Shibusawa Tei, Eiichi's younger sister
 * Honoka Yoshida as young Tei
 * Kengo Kora as Shibusawa Kisaku (later known as Shibusawa Seiichirō), Eiichi's cousin
 * Shūto Ishikawa as young Kisaku
 * Riko Narumi as Shibusawa Yoshi, Kisaku's wife
 * Sei Hiraizumi as Shibusawa Sōsuke, Eiichi's uncle
 * Mayumi Asaka as Shibusawa Masa, Eiichi's aunt
 * Rina Ono as Shibusawa Uta, Eiichi's daughter
 * Chisato Yamasaki as young Uta
 * Sawa Nimura as Ōuchi Kuni
 * Yūki Izumisawa as Shibusawa Tokuji
 * Shō Kasamatsu as Shibusawa Keizo
 * Kentarō Tamura as Hozumi Nobushige
 * Kenta Uchino as Sakatani Yoshirō
 * Akana Ikeda as Shibusawa Kotoko
 * Yuko Oshima as Itō Kaneko, Eiichi's second wife
 * Yūki Yagi as Shibusawa Fumiko

Odaka family

 * Seiichi Tanabe as Odaka Junchū, Chiyo's older brother
 * Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Odaka Chōshichirō
 * Kōsei Sutō as young Chōshichirō
 * Ai Hashimoto as Odaka Chiyo, Eiichi's first wife
 * Aiko Iwasaki as young Chiyo
 * Kenshi Okada as Odaka Heikurō (later known as Shibusawa Heikurō), Eiichi's cousin
 * Haru Takagi as young Heikurō
 * Satomi Tezuka as Odaka Yahe, Odaka family's mother
 * Mai Tezuka as Odaka Kise, Junchū's wife
 * Mei Hata as Odaka Yū, Junchū's daughter

Mito Domain

 * Naoto Takenaka as Tokugawa Nariaki, Yoshinobu's father and the 9th Lord of Mito
 * Hideko Hara as Yoshiko, Yoshinobu's mother
 * Ayumu Nakajima as Tokugawa Yoshiatsu, Nariaki's eldest son and the 10th Lord of Mito
 * Rihito Itagaki as Tokugawa Akitake, Yoshiatsu and Yoshinobu's half-brother
 * Ikkei Watanabe as Fujita Tōko, Nariaki's confidant
 * Kanji Tsuda as Takeda Kōunsai, Nariaki's confidant
 * Kisetsu Fujiwara as Fujita Koshirō, Tōko's son

Hitotsubashi House

 * Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last shogun
 * Motoi Kasamatsu as Shichirōmaro (young Yoshinobu)
 * Shinichi Tsutsumi as Hiraoka Enshirō, Yoshinobu's confidant
 * Yoshino Kimura as Hiraoka Yasu, Enshirō's wife
 * Rie Mimura as Tokushin-in, Yoshinobu's grandmother
 * Rina Kawaei as Mika-gimi (Ichijō Mikako), Yoshinobu's wife
 * Toshiya Tōyama as Ikai Katsusaburō, Hitotsubashi House's side servant
 * Kazuki Namioka as Kawamura Ejūrō, Enshirō's subordinate
 * Kimihiko Hasegawa as Nakane Chōjūrō
 * Minosuke as Kurokawa Kahei
 * Hiroyuki Onoue as Hara Ichinoshin

Tokugawa family

 * Yoshi Ikuzō as Tokugawa Ieyoshi, the 12th shogun
 * Daichi Watanabe (Kuroneko Chelsea) as Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun
 * Mone Kamishiraishi as Tenshō-in Atsuhime, Iesada's wife
 * Rie Minemura as Utahashi, Iesada's nanny
 * Hayato Isomura as Tokugawa Iemochi, the 14th shogun
 * Mai Fukagawa as Princess Kazu, Iemochi's wife and Emperor Kōmei's younger half-sister

Rōjū

 * Gorō Kishitani as Ii Naosuke, the tairō
 * Ryohei Otani as Abe Masahiro, member of Shogun's Council of Elders
 * Kenta Satoi as Hotta Masayoshi, member of Shogun's Council of Elders
 * Hiroyuki Sase as Kuze Hirochika
 * Ryūnosuke Karasawa as Naitō Nobuchika
 * Rikiya Koyama as Sakai Tadashige
 * Takeshi Matsumura as Mizuno Tadakiyo

Hatamoto

 * Mitsuru Hirata as Kawaji Toshiakira, Chief Financial Official
 * Yasuhi Nakamura as Nagai Naoyuki, Coastal Defense
 * Satoru Kawaguchi as Iwase Tadanari

Shinsengumi

 * Keita Machida as Hijikata Toshizō

Others

 * Jun Shison as Sugiura Aizō
 * Mansaku Ikeuchi as Kurimoto Joun
 * Sō Yamanaka as Tanabe Taichi
 * Akira Okamori as Mukōyama Kazufumi
 * Yoshihiko Hosoda as Dr. Takamatsu Ryōun
 * Atsuhiro Inukai as Fukuchi Gen'ichirō
 * Shinji Takeda as Oguri Kozukenosuke (Tadamasa)
 * Miou Tanaka as Tanuma Okitaka
 * Hiroshi Yamamoto as Yamataka Nobuakira

Aizu and Kuwana Domains

 * Seiichi Kohinata as Matsudaira Katamori
 * Shunpei Kohinata as Matsudaira Sadaaki

Fukui Domain

 * Jun Kaname as Matsudaira Yoshinaga, a.k.a. Matsudaira Shungaku, Fukui feudal lord
 * Teppei Koike as Hashimoto Sanai, Fukui feudal warrior

Satsuma Domain

 * Shin'ya Niiro as Shimazu Nariakira, 28th Head of the Shimazu clan
 * Narushi Ikeda as Shimazu Hisamitsu, Lord of Satsuma Domain and the guardian of Shigehisa
 * Hanamaru Hakata as Saigō Takamori
 * Kanji Ishimaru as Ōkubo Toshimichi, Hisamitsu's confidant
 * Yu Tokui as Orita Yōzō
 * Dean Fujioka as Godai Tomoatsu
 * Ryūnosuke Matsumura as Mishima Michitsune
 * Joe Hyūga as Kawamura Sumiyoshi

The imperial court

 * Onoe Ukon II as Emperor Kōmei, 121st Emperor of Japan
 * Naoki Inukai as Emperor Meiji, 122nd Emperor of Japan
 * Suzuri Shibasaki as Prince Sachi
 * Takaya Yamauchi as Iwakura Tomomi
 * Yōhei Okuda as Prince Kuni Asahiko
 * Yuta Kanai as Sanjō Sanetomi
 * Keiichirō Mori as Nijō Nariyuki
 * Mizuki Tsujimoto as Empress Eishō
 * Ryōtarō Okiayu as Ōgimachisanjō Sanenaru
 * Masami Horiuchi as Nakayama Tadayasu

Foreigners

 * Morley Robertson as Matthew C. Perry, a commodore of the U.S. Navy
 * Blake Crawford as Henry A. Adams
 * Charles Glover as Townsend Harris
 * Kyle Card as Ernest Mason Satow
 * Ian Moore as Harry Parkes
 * Alexandre Sagar as Alexander von Siebold
 * Greg Dale as Paul Flury-Hérard
 * Didier Carelock as Léon Roches
 * Jeffrey Rowe as Charles de Montblanc
 * Julien Jaulin as Napoleon III
 * Marie Moilliet as Eugénie de Montijo
 * Nozomi de Lencquesaing as Mermet de Cachon
 * Arno Le Gall as Leopold II of Belgium
 * Massimo Biondi as Paul Brunat
 * Riccardo Balzarini as Alexander Allan Shand
 * Frederic Benoliel as Ulysses S. Grant
 * Michelle Take as Julia Grant
 * Brent Olian as Jesse Grant
 * Gaetano Totaro as Theodore Roosevelt
 * Neil Garrison as William Howard Taft
 * Dong Hao as Sun Yat-sen
 * Ricky Anderson as Frank A. Vanderlip
 * Jamie Schyy as George Eastman
 * Don Johnson as Lyman J. Gage

The new government

 * Ikusaburo Yamazaki as Itō Hirobumi
 * Kōji Ōkura as Ōkuma Shigenobu
 * Aki Asakura as Ōkuma Ayako, Shigenobu's wife
 * Shūichirō Masuda as Etō Shinpei
 * Masaki Miura as Maejima Hisoka
 * Wataru Takagi as Tamano Yofumi
 * Kaisei Kamimura as Akamatsu Noriyoshi
 * Seiji Fukushi as Inoue Kaoru
 * Reika Manaki as Inoue Takeko
 * Ren Komai as Inoue Sueko
 * Kazuaki Hankai as Komura Jutarō
 * Reki Amada as Katō Takaaki
 * Kenjirō Ishimaru as Hara Takashi
 * Yoshimasa Kondo as Shidehara Kijūrō
 * Yoshiyuki Ōmori as Katō Tomosaburō
 * Masato Mitani as Tokugawa Iesato
 * Tōsei Ishida as Kaneko Kentarō
 * Kazunari Uryū as Soeda Juichi

Mitsubishi Group

 * Nakamura Shikan VIII as Iwasaki Yatarō
 * Shugo Oshinari as Iwasaki Yanosuke

Others

 * Kin'ya Kitaōji as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the host of the series.
 * Tōru Watanabe as Umeda Shinnosuke, Armor dealer in Edo
 * Hiroshi Tamaki as Takashima Shūhan, Western-style gunner
 * Yoshi Sakō as Tone Yoshiharu, Okabe Domain magistrate
 * Shunya Itabashi as Sanada Hannosuke, swordsman
 * Ginnojō Yamazaki as Ōhashi Totsuan, Edo Confucian scholar
 * Tetsu Watanabe as Kakubei
 * Tomori Abe as Suma
 * Shōdai Fukuyama as Kōno Kenzō
 * Masataka Matsubara as Inokichi
 * Hajime Yamazaki as Rōro Sakatani
 * Daikichi Sugawara as Date Munenari, 8th Head of the Uwajima Domain
 * Ryūshi Mizukami as Yamauchi Yōdō, 15th Head of the Tosa Domain
 * Takuo Inari as Tokugawa Yoshikatsu, 14th Head of the Owari Domain
 * Nakamura Mantarō as Fukuzawa Yukichi
 * Issey Ogata as Minomura Rizaemon
 * Junpei Yasui as Masuda Takashi
 * Hisahiro Ogura as Ono Zen'emon
 * Katsumi Kiba as Ōkubo Ichiō
 * Yōji Tanaka as Hagiwara Shirobei
 * Tadashi Ōtake as Hiraoka Junzō
 * Ryūji Kasahara as Kijima Matabei
 * Kumi Kureshiro as Masuda Eiko
 * Takashi Okabe as Ōkura Kihachirō
 * Rio Kanno as Ōkura Tokuko
 * Kōki Osamura as Sasaki Yūnosuke
 * Kanda Hakuzan VI as Kanda Hakuzan II
 * Jiro Okamoto as Kijūrō
 * Kōzō Haginoya as Kodama Gentarō
 * Kazu Murakami as Dr. Takaki
 * Hiro Ueno as Yasoda Meitarō
 * Yūichi Yasoda as Kitasato Shibasaburō