• 
  Akira Kurosawa

  regizor

• 
  Shinobu Hashimoto

  scenarist
• 
  Ryûzô Kikushima

  scenarist

• 
  Toshiro Mifune

  Taketori Washizu
• 
  Isuzu Yamada

  Lady Asaji Washizu
• 
  Takashi Shimura

  Noriyasu Odagura
• 
  Akira Kubo

  Yoshiteru Miki
• 
  Hiroshi Tachikawa

  Kunimaru Tsuzuki

• 
  Takamaru Sasaki

  Kuniharu Tsuzuki
• 
  Eiko Miyoshi

  Old Woman at castle
• 
  Minoru Chiaki

  Yoshiaki Miki
• 
  Kichijiro Ueda

  Washizu's workman
• 
  Seiji Miyaguchi

  Phantom samurai
• 
  Nobuo Nakamura

  Phantom samurai
• 
  Ikio Sawamura

  Washizu soldier

• 
  Takeshi Katô

  Guard killed by Washizu
• 
  Hitoshi Takagi

  Tsuzuki guard
• 
  Shiro Mifune

  Taketori Washizu
• 
  Yoshio Inaba

  Third Military Commander
• 
  Kokuten Kodo

  Military Commander
• 
  Yû Fujiki

  Washizu samurai
• 
  Chieko Naniwa

  Old Ghost Woman
• 
  Sachio Sakai

  Washizu samurai
• 
  Nakajirô Tomita

  Second Military Commander