Toshirō Mifune as Kiichi Nakajima

Takashi Shimura as Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada

Minoru Chiaki as Jiro Nakajima

Masao Shimizu as Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband

Eiko Miyoshi as Toyo Nakajima

Kyoko Aoyama as Sue Nakajima

Haruko Tōgō as Yoshi Nakajima

Noriko Sengoku as Kimie Nakajima

Akemi Negishi as Asako Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Ryoichi Sayama

Kichijirō Ueda as Mr. Kuribayashi father

Eijirō Tōno as Old man from Brazil

Yutaka Sada as Ichiro Nakajima

Kamatari Fujiwara as Okamoto

Ken Mitsuda as Judge Araki

Atsushi Watanabe as Factory Worker Ishida

Kiyomi Mizunoya as Satoko

Gen Shimizu as

Toranosuke Ogawa as Hori, the lawyer

Nobuo Nakamura as Psychologist

Bokuzen Hidari as Landowner

Yoshio Tsuchiya as Factory Worker after Fire

Akira Tani as Chunky Jailbird

Kokuten Kōdō as Workers' Older Family Member

Noriko Honma as Worker family member

Kazuo Katō as Susumu

Yoshiko Miyata as Secretary Tamiya

Toyoko Okubo as Susumu's wife Sumiko

Saoko Yonemura as Taeko

Gorô Sakurai as Factory worker

Senkichi Ōmura as Skinny Jailbird

Haruo Nakajima as Foundry employee (uncredited)

Takuzō Kumagai as Psychiatric nurse (uncredited)