Toshirō Mifune as Heihachiro Komaki

Yōko Tsukasa as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo

Akira Takarada as Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe

Keiko Awaji as Nanae

Seizaburō Kawazu as Nagashima

Kamatari Fujiwara as Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)

Akihiko Hirata as Akaboshi

Eiko Miyoshi as Okuni

Sachio Sakai as (uncredited)

Yoshifumi Tajima as (uncredited)

Akira Tani as (uncredited)

Yutaka Sada as (uncredited)

Senkichi Ōmura as (uncredited)

Hideyo Amamoto as (uncredited)

Haruo Tanaka as (uncredited)

Kichijirō Ueda as (uncredited)

Fumindo Matsuo as (uncredited)

Chieko Nakakita as (uncredited)

Akira Sera as (uncredited)

Mitsuo Tsuda as (uncredited)

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as (uncredited)

Setsuko Wakayama as (uncredited)

Ren Yamamoto as (uncredited)

Shin Ōtomo as (uncredited)