Denjirō Ōkōchi as Shogoro Yano

Susumu Fujita as Sanshiro Sugata

Yukiko Todoroki as Sayo Murai

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Gennosuke Higaki

Takashi Shimura as Hansuke Murai, Sayo's father

Ranko Hanai as Osumi Kodana

Sugisaku Aoyama as Tsunetami Iimura

Ichirō Sugai as Police Chief Mishima

Yoshio Kosugi as Master Saburo Kodama

Kokuten Kōdō as Buddhist Priest

Michisaburō Segawa as Wada

Akitake Kōno as Yoshima Dan

Sōji Kiyokawa as Yujiro Toda

Kunio Mita as Kohei Tsuzaki

Akira Nakamura as Toranosuki Niiseki

Eisaburo Sakauchi as Nemoto

Ko Yamamuro as Torakichi

Ichirō Ryūzaki as Monma's pupil (uncredited)