• 
  Toshiro Mifune

  Matsumura
• 
  Mariko Okada

  The young woman
• 
  Eiko Miyoshi

  Old wife
• 
  So Yamamura

  The husband
• 
  Keiju Kobayashi

  Drunken man A
• 
  Shiro Mifune

  Matsumura
• 
  Rintaro

  The burglar
• 
  Hiroshi Koizumi

  The young man

• 
  Kamatari Fujiwara

  Drunken man B
• 
  Kei Kobayashi

  Drunken man A

• 
  Tomoyuki Tanaka

  producător
• 
  Akira Kurosawa

  scriitor