Michiyo Aratama as First Wife (segment "The Black Hair")

Rentaro Mikuni as Husband (segment "The Black Hair")

Misako Watanabe as Second Wife (segment "The Black Hair")

Kenjirō Ishiyama as Father (segment "The Black Hair")

Ranko Akagi as Mother (segment "The Black Hair")

Fumie Kitahara as (segment "The Black Hair")

Kappei Matsumoto as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Yoshiko Ieda as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Otome Tsukimiya as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Kenzō Tanaka as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Kiyoshi Nakano as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Tatsuya Nakadai as Minokichi (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Keiko Kishi as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Yūko Mochizuki as Minokichi's Mother (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Kin Sugai as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Noriko Sengoku as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Akiko Nomura as (segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)

Torahiko Hamada as (segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)

Jun Hamamura as (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Katsuo Nakamura as Hoichi (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Tetsuro Tamba as Warrior (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Takashi Shimura as Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Yoichi Hayashi as Attendant (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Eiko Muramatsu as Kenreiinmon (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Kunie Tanaka as Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Kazuo Kitamura as Tomomori (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Ichirō Nakatani as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Masanori Tomotake as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Tokue Hanazawa as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Shizue Natsukawa as Tokiko (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Shin Tatsuoka as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Makiko Kitashiro as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Masakazu Kuwayama as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Akira Tani as Huntsman #2 (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Yōsuke Kondō as Benkei (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kiyoshi Yamamoto as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kinji Omino as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Atsuo Nakamura as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Ginzô Sekiguchi as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Akio Miyabe as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Gen'ya Nagai as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Toru Uchida as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Hikaru Jinno as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Toshio Fukuhara as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kirô Abe as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Toshiro Yagi as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Yuriko Abe as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Yuri Satô as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kyōichi Satō as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Nobuo Aikawa as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Taiji Kodama as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Nobuaki Maeda as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Teruhiko Shibata as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Haruo Kaji as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Michio Gina as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Seiji Tabe as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Mitsuko Narita as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Noriko Mikura as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Aiko Nagayama as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Michiko Nakahata as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kan'emon Nakamura as Kannai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Osamu Takizawa as Author / Narrator (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Haruko Sugimura as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Noboru Nakaya as Shikibu Heinai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Seiji Miyaguchi as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Kei Satō as Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Shigeru Kōyama as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Jun Tazaki as Kannai's Colleague #1 (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Junkichi Orimoto as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Akiji Kobayashi as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Yoshirō Aoki as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Isao Tamagawa as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Hideyo Amamoto as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Ganjirō Nakamura II as Publisher (segment "In a Cup of Tea")