Kyoka Suzuki as Kafuka Ogawa

Shinichi Tsutsumi as Masaki Shibata

Ittoku Kishibe as Inspector Nagoshi

Hideko Yoshida as Kafka's Mother

Mirai Yamamoto as Mikako Kudo

Masanobu Katsumura as Sunaoka

Takashi Sasano as Tezuka

Takatoshi Takeda as Detective Nakamura

Masato Irie as Hatata Osamu

Misayo Haruki as Hatata Kei

Daikichi Sugawara as Detective Tatebayashi

Jun Kunimura as Shibata Toshimitsu

Kirin Kiki as Defence Counsel Shigure Nagamura

Tohru Emori as Prosecutor Michihiko Kusama

Naoki Sugiura as Professor Saneyuki Fujishiro

Yasuhito Ohchi as Kudo Keisuke as a child

Isamu Minami as Hatata Osamu (as a child )

Mika Asai as Mikako as a child

Ayako Yoshitani as Kudo Atsuko

Kazuyo Kawamura as Kudo Miyuki

Tomonori Yoshida as Shibata Masaki - as Child

Toshie Kobayashi as Asylum nurse

Koji Sato as Iwaki Senjo

Hiroshi Isobe as Inuyama's lawyer

Kumiko Tsuchiya as Nogami Yoriko

Tadao Tamura as Presiding Judge

Hirokazu Inoue as Muramatsu

Chosuke Ikariya as Patient

Rakkii Ikeda as Inuyama's detective