Toshirō Mifune as Kingo Gondo

Tatsuya Nakadai as Chief Detective Tokura

Kyōko Kagawa as Reiko Gondo

Tatsuya Mihashi as Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary

Isao Kimura as Detective Arai

Kenjirō Ishiyama as Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi

Takeshi Katō as Detective Nakao

Takashi Shimura as Chief of Investigation Section

Jun Tazaki as Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director

Nobuo Nakamura as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director

Yūnosuke Itō as Baba - National Shoes Executive

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern

Minoru Chiaki as First Reporter

Eijirō Tōno as Factory Worker

Masao Shimizu as Prison Warden

Yutaka Sada as Aoki - the Chauffeur

Masahiko Shimazu as Shinichi Aoki

Toshio Egi as Jun Gondo

Kōji Mitsui as Second Reporter

Kyū Sazanka as First Creditor

Susumu Fujita as Chief of First Investigating Section

Kamatari Fujiwara as Junkyard Cook

Yoshio Tsuchiya as Detective Murata

Kazuo Kitamura as Third Reporter

Gen Shimizu as Chief Physician

Akira Nagoya as Detective Yamamoto

Jun Hamamura as Second Creditor

Masao Oda as First Executor at Tax Office

Kō Nishimura as Third Creditor

Yoshibumi Tajima as Chief Prison Officer

Koji Kiyomura as Fish Market Office Worker

Hiroshi Unayama as Detective Shimada

Yoshisuke Makino as Detective Takahashi

Jun Kondô as Identification Center Worker

Tomo Suzuki as Detective Koike

Senkichi Ōmura as Messenger Passing Note to Intern

Kazuo Katō as Identification Center Worker

Ikio Sawamura as Yokohama Station Trolley Man

Kin Sugai as Female Drug Addict

Keiko Tomita as Murder Victim

Isao Onoda as Male Drug Addict

Seiichi Taguchi as Detective Nakamura

Takeo Matsushita as Second Executor at Tax Office

Kiyoshi Yamamoto as Detective Ueno

Kenji Kodama as Detective Hara

Minoru Itō as Detective

Haruo Suzuki as Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict'

Kōzō Nomura as Detective (uncredited)