• 
  Akira Kurosawa

  regizor

• 
  Akira Kurosawa

  scenarist

• 
  Yoko Tsukasa

  Nui
• 
  Toshiro Mifune

  Sanjuro Kuwabatake/ Samuraiul
• 
  Tatsuya Nakadai

  Unosuke, pistolar
• 
  Isuzu Yamada

  Orin
• 
  Daisuke Kato

  Inokichi, Fratele rotund al Ushitoraei
• 
  Seizaburo Kawazu

  Seibei

• 
  Takashi Shimura

  Tokuemon
• 
  Atsushi Watanabe

  The Cooper (Coffin-Maker)
• 
  Kô Nishimura

  Kuma
• 
  Eijirô Tôno

  Gonji, tavern keeper
• 
  Susumu Fujita

  Homma, instructor who skips town
• 
  Ikio Sawamura

  Hansuke
• 
  Hiroshi Tachikawa

  Yoichiro

• 
  Takeshi Katô

  Ronin Kobuhachi
• 
  Ichiro Nakaya

  First Samurai
• 
  Eisei Amamoto

  Yahachi
• 
  Shiro Mifune

  Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai
• 
  Kamatari Fujiwara

  Tazaemon
• 
  Yosuke Natsuki

  Kohei's Son
• 
  Kyû Sazanka

  Ushitora