Ken Ogata as Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970")

Go Riju as Mishima, age 18-19 (segment "Flashbacks")

Masayuki Shionoya as Morita (segment "November 25, 1970")

Hiroshi Mikami as Cadet #1 (segment "November 25, 1970")

Junkichi Orimoto as General Mashita (segment "November 25, 1970")

Masato Aizawa as Mishima - age 9-14 (segment "Flashbacks")

Junya Fukuda as Cadet #2 (segment "November 25, 1970")

Shigeto Tachihara as Cadet #3 (segment "November 25, 1970")

Yuki Nagahara as Mishima, age 5 (segment "Flashbacks")

Kyuzo Kobayashi as Literary Friend (segment "Flashbacks")

Yuki Kitazume as Dancing Friend (segment "Flashbacks")

Haruko Katō as Grandmother (segment "Flashbacks")

Bandō Mitsugorō X as Mizoguchi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Hisako Manda as Mariko (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Naomi Oki as First Girl (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Miki Takakura as Second Girl (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Imari Tsujikoichi Sato as Madame (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Koichi Sato as Kashiwagi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Kenji Sawada as Osamu (segment "Kyoko's House")

Reisen Ri as Kiyomi (segment "Kyoko's House")

Setsuko Karasuma as Mitsuko (segment "Kyoko's House")

Tadanori Yokoo as Natsuo (segment "Kyoko's House")

Yasuaki Kurata as Takei (segment "Kyoko's House")

Mitsuru Hirata as Thug (segment "Kyoko's House")

Toshiyuki Nagashima as Isao (segment "Runaway Horses")

Hiroshi Katsuno as Lieutenant Hori (segment "Runaway Horses")

Naoya Makoto as Kendo Instructor (segment "Runaway Horses")

Kunihiko Ida as Izutsu (segment "Runaway Horses")

Jun Negami as Kurahara (segment "Runaway Horses")

Ryō Ikebe as Interrogator (segment "Runaway Horses")

Toshio Hosokawa as 'Rokumeikan' Producer

Hideo Fukuhara as Military Doctor

Yosuke Mizuno as 'Yukoku' Producer

Eimei Esumi as Ichigaya Aide-de-Camp

Minoru Hodaka as Ichigaya Colonel

Alan Poul as American Reporter

Ren Ebata as Reporter #1

Yasuhiro Arai as Reporter #2

Fumio Mizushima as Reporter #3

Shinji Miura as Pavilion Acolyte

Sachiko Akagi as Thug's Girl Friend

Tsutomu Harada as Romeo

Mami Okamoto as Juliet

Atsushi Takayama as Interrogation Policeman

Kimiko Ito as Grandmother's Nurse

Kojiro Oka as First MP

Tatsuya Hiragaki as Actor #1

Shinichi Nosaka as Policeman

Sachiko Hidari as Osamu's Mother

Roy Scheider as Narrator (voice)

Chishū Ryū as A monk

Naoko Ohtani as Mother

Yuichi Sato as Student

Masahiko Sakata as Isao's Classmate