- Iain Glen
- Richard Sorge
- Masahiro Motoki
- Hotsumi Ozaki
- Kippei Shîna
- Mitsusada Yoshikawa
- Takaya Kamikawa
- Special Agent 'T'
- Riona Hazuki
- Hanako Miyake
- Koyuki
- Yoshiko Yamazaki
- Yui Natsukawa
- Eiko Ozaki
- Toshiya Nagasawa
- Yotoku Miyagi
- Takaaki Enoki
- Duke Fumimaro Konoye
- Ulrich Mühe
- Eugen Ott
- Mia Yoo
- Agnes Smedley
- Wolfgang S. Zechmayer
- Max Klausen
- Armin Marewski
- Branko Vukelic
- Catherine Flemming
- Katja
- Karen Friesicke
- Helma Ott
- Kinnosuke Hannayagi
- Emperor Showa
- Akaji Maro
- Gen Sukiyama
- Mitsuru Fukikoshi
- Kinkazu Saionji
- Shingo Tsurumi
- Tomohiko Ushiba
- Takashi Tsumura
- Ministry of Home Affairs Man
- Kenzô Kawarasaki
- Head of Asahi Shinbun Shanghai
- Gô Haraguchi
- Shigeru Honjo
- Mansaku Fuwa
- The Man Who Watches
- Hideo Kanze
- Noh Actor - Utou
- Lena Lessing
- Anna Klausen
- Marian Wolf
- Ambassador Dirksen
- Max Hopp
- Major Scholl
- Michael Christian
- Colonel Meisinger
- Alexandra Finder
- Secretary Kiefer
- Marek Wlodarczyk
- General Berzin
- Jurij Rosstalnyj
- Lieutenant General Ulitsky
- Robert Mika
- Lavrentiy Beria
- Jarek Wozniak
- Victor
- Ralph-Peter Borchert
- Stalin
- Naoto Takenaka
- Hideki Tojo
- Koji Higuchi
- Hideo Ohashi
- Joe Matsumura
- Detention Centre Interpreter
- Kenjirô Tsuda
- News Photographer
- Daijiro Tsuruoka
- Lieutenant Kurihara
- Manabu Sato
- Captain Ando
- Kôtarô Tanaka
- Young Officer
- Noboru Akima
- Prison Guard
- Ryuu Miyato
- Manchurian Railway Presenter
- Shinji Nomura
- Evacuation Drill Man
- Nao Eguchi
- Prostitute
- Shen Li-Hui
- Shanghai Girl
- Yoshizumi Ishihara
- Motoaki Nakahashi
- Tatsuya Egawa
- Tairiku Ronin
- Midori Kimura
- Hanako's Mother
- Tomonobu Fukui
- Interpreter in Nikko
- Yôichi Okamura
- Taketora Ogata
- Tetsuya Yamamoto
- Portrait Soldier
- Takahiro Oshima
- Ministry of Telecommunications Correspondent
- Tatsu Kaneko
- Korekiyo Takahashi
- Hôryû Nakamura
- Street Photographer
- Makoto Isige
- Unemployed Intellectual
- Shin Fukui
- Russian speaking man
- Kei Satô
- Grave Keeper
- Roger Pulvers
- Newspaper Reporter
- Vincent Giry
- U.S. M.P.
- Georg O.P. Eschert
- Ketel
- Yoshiko Noda
- Clara
- Mikusa Minegishi
- Berta
- Emi Matsunaga
- Monika
- Jouichi Shimode
- Barman
- Shinobu Asaoka
- Maidservant
- Hiroko Kanno
- Receptionist
- Peter Gössner
- (as Joerg-Peter Goessner)
- Shima Iwashita
- Chiyoko Konoe
- Haruko Katô
- Hanako Miyake in 1991
- Yui Tateishi
- Hantama
- Hideji Ôtaki
- Duke Kinmochi Sai-onji
- Masahiro Shinoda
- Yoshiko's Father
