Ken Watanabe as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Kazunari Ninomiya as Private Saigo

Tsuyoshi Ihara as Colonel Baron Nishi

Ryo Kase as Private Shimizu

Shido Nakamura as Lieutenant Ito

Hiroshi Watanabe as Lieutenant Fujita

Takumi Bando as Captain Tanida

Yuki Matsuzaki as Private Nozaki

Takashi Yamaguchi as Kashiwara

Eijiro Ozaki as Lieutenant Okubo

Nae Yuuki as Hanako

Nobumasa Sakagami as Admiral Ohsugi

Luke Eberl as Sam

Sonny Saito as Medic Endo

Steve Santa Sekiyoshi as Kanda

Hiro Abe as Lt. Colonel Oiso

Toshiya Agata as Captain Iwasaki

Toshi Toda as Colonel Adachi

Ken Kensei as Maj. General Hayashi

Ikuma Ando as Ozawa

Akiko Shima as Lead Woman

Masashi Nagadoi as Admiral Ichimaru

Mark Moses as American Officer

Roxanne Hart as Officer's Wife

Ryan Carnes as Marine at Clearing

Ryan Kelley as Marine #2

Sam Arnold as American Marine (Ryan) (uncredited)