• 
  Akira Kurosawa

  regizor

• 
  Shinobu Hashimoto

  scenarist

• 
  Toshiro Mifune

  Kiichi Nakajima
• 
  Minoru Chiaki

  Jiro Nakajima
• 
  Takashi Shimura

  dr. Harada
• 
  Masao Shimizu

  Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband
• 
  Eiko Miyoshi

  Toyo Nakajima
• 
  Atsushi Watanabe

  Factory Worker Ishida

• 
  Kichijiro Ueda

  Mr. Kuribayashi father
• 
  Nobuo Nakamura

  Psychologist
• 
  Eijirô Tôno

  Old man from Brazil
• 
  Hiroshi Tachikawa

  Ryoichi Sayama
• 
  Shiro Mifune

  Kiichi Nakajima
• 
  Kokuten Kodo

  Workers' Older Family Member
• 
  Kamatari Fujiwara

  Okamoto

• 
  Akemi Negishi

  Asako Kuribayashi

• 
  Fumio Hayasaka

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