Martin Balsam as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

Sō Yamamura as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Jason Robards as General Walter C. Short

Joseph Cotten as Henry L. Stimson

Tatsuya Mihashi as Commander Minoru Genda

E.G. Marshall as Colonel Rufus S. Bratton

Takahiro Tamura as Lt. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida

James Whitmore as Admiral William F. Halsey

Eijirō Tōno as Admiral Chuici Nagumo

Wesley Addy as Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer

Shōgo Shimada as Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura

Frank Aletter as Lt. Commander Thomas

Koreya Senda as Prince Fumimaro Konoye

Leon Ames as Frank Knox

Jun Usami as Admiral Zengo Yoshida

Richard Anderson as Captain John B. Earle

Kazuo Kitamura as Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka

Keith Andes as General George C. Marshall

Edward Andrews as Admiral Harold R. Stark

Neville Brand as Lieutenant Harold Kaminsky

Leora Dana as Mrs. Kramer

Asao Uchida as General Hideki Tojo

Susumu Fujita as Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi

Bontarō Miake as Adm. Koshiro Oikawa

Ichirō Ryūzaki as Rear Adm. Ryunosuke Kusaka

George Macready as Cordell Hull

Norman Alden as Major Truman Landon

Kazuko Ichikawa as Geisha in Kagoshima

Walter Brooke as Captain Theodore Wilkinson

Hank Jones as Davey - Student Pilot in Biplane

Rick Cooper as Lieutenant George Welch

Karl Lukas as Capt. Harold C. Train - USS California

June Dayton as Miss Ray Cave

Ron Masak as Lt. Laurence Ruff - USS Nevada

Jeff Donnell as Cornelia

Shunichi Nakamura as Kameto Kurojima

Richard Erdman as Colonel Edward F. French

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Rear Adm. Chuichi Hara

Jerry Fogel as Lt. Commander William Outerbridge

Carl Reindel as Lieutenant Kenneth Taylor

Elven Havard as Mess Attendant 3rd Class Doris Miller

Edmon Ryan as Rear Admiral Bellinger

Toshio Hosokawa as Lt. Cmdr. Shigeharu Murata

Hisao Toake as Saburo Kurusu

Tōru Abe as Rear Adm. Takijiro Onishi (uncredited)

Hiroshi Akutagawa as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Koichi Kido (uncredited)

Leon Alton as Official (uncredited)

Kiyoshi Atsumi as Cook #1 (uncredited)

Paul Bradley as Official (uncredited)

Harold Conway as Eugene Dooman - US Embassy Counselor (uncredited)

Francis De Sales as Capt. Arthur H. McCollum (uncredited)

George DeNormand as Official (uncredited)

Glenn Dixon as Officer at Signing of Pact (uncredited)

Dave Donnelly as Maj. Gordon A. Blake (uncredited)

James B. Douglas as French's Subordinate (uncredited)

Bill Edwards as Col. Kendall J. Fielder (uncredited)

Paul Frees as Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura (voice) (uncredited)

Bobby Gilbert as Official (uncredited)

Charles Gilbert as Lt. Col. William H. Murphy (uncredited)

Torahiko Hamada as Admiral (uncredited)

Ed Haskett as Officer at Signing of Pact (uncredited)

Ryōji Hayama as Admiral (uncredited)

Andrew Hughes as Embassy Delegation Employee of Japan (uncredited)

Hisashi Igawa as Lt. Mitsuo Matsuzaki (uncredited)

Alex Johnson as Army Officer (uncredited)

Robert Karnes as Maj. John H. Dillon (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp as Civilian Official Seated at Meeting Table (uncredited)

Berry Kroeger as U.S. Army General (uncredited)

Akira Kume as Katsuzo Okumura (uncredited)

Joseph La Cava as Official (uncredited)

Ken Lynch as Rear Adm. John H. Newton (uncredited)

Eitarō Matsuyama as Cook #2 (uncredited)

Mitch Mitchell as Col. Walter C. Phillips (uncredited)

Hideo Murota as Japanese Pilot (uncredited)

Jiro Okazaki as Pilot (uncredited)

John Pedrini as Official (uncredited)

Steve Pendleton as Destroyer Captain (uncredited)

Charlie Picerni as Burning Sailor (uncredited)

Joe Pine as Official (uncredited)

Walter Reed as Vice Adm. William S. Pye (uncredited)

Robert Shayne as Cmdr. William H. Buracker (uncredited)

Edward Sheehan as Brig. Gen. Howard C. Davidson (uncredited)

Tommy Splittgerber as Ed Klein (uncredited)

G. D. Spradlin as Cmdr. Maurice E. Curts (uncredited)

Hiroshi Tom Tanaka as Japanese Midget Submarine Crewman (uncredited)

Larry Thor as Maj. Gen. Frederick L. Martin (uncredited)

George Tobias as Captain on Flight Line at Hickam Field (uncredited)

Arthur Tovey as Officer at Signing of Pact (uncredited)

Bob Turnbull as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Harlan Warde as Brig. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow (uncredited)

Meredith 'Tex' Weatherby as Ambassador Joseph C. Grew (uncredited)

David Westberg as Ens. Edgar M. Fair (uncredited)

Bruce Wilson as Pvt. Joseph Lockard (uncredited)

Bill Zuckert as Adm. James O. Richardson (uncredited)

Mike Daneen as Edward Crocker - US Embassy First Secretary (uncredited)