• 
  Akira Kurosawa

  regizor

• 
  Masato Ide

  scenarist

• 
  Toshiro Mifune

  Kyojio Niide, 'Barba Rosie'
• 
  Yuzo Kayama

  Noboru Yasumoto
• 
  Kamatari Fujiwara

  Rokusuke
• 
  Takashi Shimura

  Tokubei Izumiya
• 
  Haruko Sugimura

  Kin, the madam
• 
  Atsushi Watanabe

  Patient B

• 
  Kô Nishimura
• 
  Eijirô Tôno

  Goheiji
• 
  Kyoko Kagawa

  Madwoman
• 
  Kinuyo Tanaka

  Madame Yasumoto, Noboru's mother
• 
  Ikio Sawamura

  Resident
• 
  Shiro Mifune

  Dr. Kyojio Niide, 'Akahige' ['Red Beard']
• 
  Yoshitaka Zushi

  Choji

• 
  Kin Sugai

  Choji's mother
• 
  Keiko Tomita

  Girl on street
• 
  Tatsuyoshi Ehara

  Genzo Tsugawa
• 
  Tôru Ibuki

  Hoţ
• 
  Koji Mitsui

  Heikichi
• 
  Akemi Negishi

  Okuni, the mistress
• 
  Chishû Ryû

  Mr. Yasumoto
• 
  Reiko Dan

  Osugi
• 
  Miyuki Kuwano

  Onaka
• 
  Terumi Niki

  Otoyo
• 
  Yoshio Tsuchiya

  Dr. Handayû Mori
• 
  Tsutomu Yamazaki

  Sahachi