- Toshirô Mifune
- Genba Tawaraboshi
- Yûzô Kayama
- Takuminokami Asano
- Tatsuya Mihashi
- Yasubei Horibe
- Akira Takarada
- Gunbei Takada
- Yôsuke Natsuki
- Kin'emon Okano
- Makoto Satô
- Kazuemon Fuwa
- Tadao Takashima
- Jûjirô Hazama
- Seizaburô Kawazu
- Chûzaemon Yoshida
- Takashi Shimura
- Hyôbu Chisaka
- Daisuke Katô
- Kichiemon Terasaka
- Keiju Kobayashi
- Awajinokami Wakisaka
- Ryô Ikebe
- Chikara Tsuchiya
- Setsuko Hara
- Riku
- Yôko Tsukasa
- Yôzen'in
- Reiko Dan
- Okaru
- Yuriko Hoshi
- Otsuya
- Yumi Shirakawa
- Ume
- Kumi Mizuno
- Saho
- Mie Hama
- Woman 1
- Nami Tamura
- Woman 2
- Yôko Fujiyama
- Miyuki
- Junko Ikeuchi
- Ofumi
- Keiko Awaji
- Otoki
- Mitsuko Kusabue
- Notsubone Toda
- Michiyo Aratama
- Ukigumo
- Hisaya Morishige
- Hanbei
- Furankî Sakai
- Heigorô
- Norihei Miki
- Rihei
- Kingorô Yanagiya
- Otokichi
- Kiiton Masuda
- Tachû Matsubara
- Mutoshi Happa
- Tokuzô
- Tôru Yuri
- Nonta
- Toshiaki Minami
- Denpachi
- Kyû Sazanka
- Dewanokami Yanagisawa
- Ichirô Arishima
- Denpachirô Okado
- Hiroshi Koizumi
- Gengo Ãtaka
- Yû Fujiki
- Tadashichi Takebayashi
- Akira Kubo
- Sakyônosuke Date
- Akihiko Hirata
- Yasoemon Okajima
- Kenji Sahara
- Jûrôzaemon Isogai
- Hiroshi Tachikawa
- Aminori Uesugi
- Tatsuyoshi Ehara
- Daigaku Asano
- Tadao Nakamaru
- Heihachirô Kobayashi
- Sachio Sakai
- Shusui Kijima
- Yoshio Tsuchiya
- Matanojô Shiota
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Kyûbei Kusuya
- Jun Tazaki
- Kiken Murakami
- Susumu Fujita
- Yosobei Kajikawa
- Ken Uehara
- Seikanji, of the Chunagons
- Jun Funato
- Saburôji Kaidzuka
- Kiyoshi Kodama
- Han'nojo Sugaya
- Hisaya Itô
- Sezaemon Ãishi
- Kôzô Nomura
- Sandayû Muramatsu
- Kô Mishima
- Tôzaemon Hayami
- Kunio Ôtsuka
- Hanpei Hirano
- Ren Yamamoto
- Yogorô Kanzaki
- Hideyo Amamoto
- Takano
- Nadao Kirino
- Kihachirô Okamoto
- Heihachirô Ôkawa
- Kyûdayû Mase
- Shigeki Ishida
- Rishichi
- Akira Tani
- Hachiemon Hoshi
- Yoshifumi Tajima
- Shuzen Wakisaka
- Ikio Sawamura
- Yasuzô
- Yoshio Kosugi
- Yahei Horibe
- Sonomi Nakajima
- Otama
- Machiko Kitagawa
- Okiyo
- Keiko Yanagawa
- Shinano
- Mieko Kurenai
- Osen
- Misako Asuka
- Shioji
- Yaeko Izumo
- Sasaya's hairdresser
- Tsuruko Mano
- Mature Woman at Edo
- Haruko Tôgô
- Okyô
- Atsuko Ichinomiya
- Otomi
- Chieko Nakakita
- Ofude
- Ryôsuke Kagawa
- Souemon Hara
- Sôji Kiyokawa
- Matazaemon Fujii
- Unpei Yokoyama
- Matsuemon
- Haruyuki Katô
- Kichichiyo
- Yôji Misaki
- Heihachirô Kondô
- Gen Shimizu
- Gensuke Araga
- Jôtarô Togami
- Ikkaku Shimizu
- Sadako Sawamura
- Tomiko
- Kumeko Otowa
- Haruno
- Teruko Mita
- Raku
- Noriko Sakabe
- Ruri
- Naoko Sakabe
- Kû
- Shin Ãtomo
- Bungonokami Shinagawa
- Yutaka Nakayama
- Drunkard A
- Mitsuo Tsuda
- Masakichi
- Keiichirô Katsumoto
- Hisakazu Seki
- Hiroshi Akitsu
- Jûnai Onodera
- Haruo Suzuki
- Draper
- Jun Kuroki
- Gengorô Kobori
- Kôji Iwamoto
- Genzô Akagaki
- Yôichirô Kitagawa
- (as Ryûichi Hosokawa)
- Naoya Kusakawa
- Gengoemon Suzuki
- Akira Yamada
- Jûheiji Sugino
- Junpei Natsuki
- Hachisuke
- Kôichi Satô
- Jûrobei Saitô
- Jirô Mitsuaki
- Kihei Muramatsu
- Ichirô Chiba
- Yanagihara
- Seiji Ikeda
- Hikoemon Yasui
- Gorô Sakurai
- Drunkard B
- Jun'ichirô Mukai
- Rihei Inoko
- Hakuô Matsumoto
- Emoshichi Yatô
- Kichiemon Nakamura
- Sanpei Kayano
- Matagorô Nakamura
- Tsunayoshi Tokugawa
- Shikaku Nakamura
- Kurobei Ãno
- Komazô Ichikawa
- Kanroku Chikamatsu
- Kichijûrô Nakamura
- Shôgen Okuyuki
- Danshirô Ichikawa
- Gengoemon Kataoka
- Ennosuke Ichikawa
- Matsunojô Ãishi
- Chûsha Ichikawa
- Kôzukenosuke Kira
- Michael Higgins
- Narrator (1963 US version)
- Haruo Nakajima
- Minor Role
