Jiang Wen as Ma Dasan

Jiang Hongbo as Yu'er

Teruyuki Kagawa as Kosaburo Hanaya

David Wu as Major Gao

Yuan Ding as Dong Hanchen

Cong Zhijun as Grandfather

Li Congxi as Liu Wang

Li Haibin as Me

Kenya Sawada as Inokichi Sakatsuka

Cai Weidong as Er Bozi

Chen Lianmei as Aunt

Yoshimoto Miyaji as Koji Nonomura

Chen Qiang as Lone-Stroke Liu

Shu Chen as Qiye

Jianquan Shi as Brother-in-law

Katsuhiro Nagano as Telephone Line Layers

Ryosuke Uomi as Telephone Line Layers

Yunshen Bai as Liu Wang's Father

Haizhao Zhou as Little Thresher Yu'er's son

Haidong Xu as De'rtou

Shiru Du as De'rtou's Father

Youren He as Drum Singer

Yihe Wang as Drum Singer

Junji Kajioka as Japanese Officer

Masayuki Yamada as Japanese Officer

Yuta Ishiyama as Japanese Officer

Yayoi Inoue as Japanese prostitute

Eri Kitahara as Japanese prostitute

Mirei Nakahara as Japanese prostitute

Tomoko Itaya as Japanese prostitute

Etsuko Morita as Japanese prostitute

Mineko Kokaji as Japanese prostitute

Shu Ping as KMT Army Officer

Hu Jiang as KMT Army Soldier

James W. Mayfield as US Marine

Abram Sauer as US Marine

Jincai Jiang as Japanese dancer

Mamoru Yamada as Japanese soldier

Yoshimoto Inoue as Japanese soldier

Daisaku Uchino as Japanese soldier

Makoto Shibazaki as Japanese soldier

Junichi Kajioka as Japanese sergeant (uncredited)