Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu

Tsukie Matsuura as Tomo

Ichirō Sugai as Shinzaemon

Hisako Yamane as Lady Matsudaira

Toshirō Mifune as Katsunosuke

Jūkichi Uno as Yakichi Ogiya

Eitarō Shindō as Kahe Sasaya

Akira Ōizumi as Fumikichi

Masao Shimizu as Kikuoji

Daisuke Katō as Tasaburo Hishiya

Toranosuke Ogawa as Yoshioka

Eijirō Yanagi as Counterfeiter

Komako Hara as Otsubone Kuzui

Kikue Mōri as Myokai, the old nun

Sadako Sawamura as Sasaya's wife Owasa

Toshiaki Konoe as Lord Harutaka Matsudaira

Kiyoko Tsuji as Landlady

Kyōko Kusajima as Sodegaki

Benkei Shiganoya as Jihei

Aizo Tamashima as Old Man