• 
  Hiroshi Inagaki

  regizor

• 
  Isuzu Yamada

  Yodogami
• 
  Toshiro Mifune

  Mohei
• 
  Takashi Shimura

  Katagiri
• 
  Chieko Nakakita

  Kyoku of Yae
• 
  Kichijiro Ueda

  Jinbei the equipment-shop owner
• 
  Susumu Fujita

  Katsuyasu Sakakibara
• 
  Kyoko Kagawa

  Ai

• 
  Ikio Sawamura
• 
  Eisei Amamoto

  Interpreter
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  Shiro Mifune

  Mohei
• 
  Seizaburo Kawazu

  Harunaga Ono
• 
  Yosuke Natsuki

  Chomonshu Kimura
• 
  Yuriko Hoshi

  Senhime
• 
  Tetsurô Tanba

  Sadamasa Ishikawa

• 
  Tomoyuki Tanaka

  producător
• 
  Hiroshi Inagaki

  scriitor