- Toshirô Mifune
- Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo)
- Kôji Tsuruta
- Kojiro Sasaki
- Kaoru Yachigusa
- Otsu
- Michiko Saga
- Omitsu
- Mariko Okada
- Akemi
- Kurôemon Onoe
- Priest Takuan
- Takashi Shimura
- Sado Nagaoka the court official
- Minoru Chiaki
- Sasuke the boatman
- Takamaru Sasaki
- Omitsu's father
- Daisuke Katô
- Toji Gion
- Haruo Tanaka
- Kumagoro the horse thief
- Kichijirô Ueda
- Priest Ogon
- Kokuten Kôdô
- Old Priest Nikkan
- Ikio Sawamura
- Innkeeper
- Shirô Tsuchiya
- (as Hirotoshi Tsuchiya)
- Akihiko Hirata
- Seijuro Yoshioka
- Kenjin Iida
- Jotaro
- Michiyo Kogure
- Yoshino
- Mitsuko Mito
- Oko
- Sachio Sakai
- Matahachi Honiden
- Eijirô Tôno
- Baiken Shishido
- Haruo Nakajima
- Minor Role
