Ken Uehara as Hatsunosuke Okamoto

Setsuko Hara as Michiyo Okamoto

Yukiko Shimazaki as Satoko Okamoto

Yōko Sugi as Mitsuko Murata

Akiko Kazami as Seiko Tomiyasu

Haruko Sugimura as Matsu Murata

Ranko Hanai as Koyoshi Dohya

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Kazuo Takenaka

Keiju Kobayashi as Shinzo Murata

Sō Yamamura as

Akira Ōizumi as Yoshitaro

Ichirō Shimizu as

Haruo Tanaka as

Chieko Nakakita as Keiko Yamakita

Sayuri Tanima as

Mitsue Tachibana as Katsuko Suzuki

Kumeko Otowa as

Yaeko Izumo as

Teruko Nagaoka as

Kumeko Urabe as Taniguchi Shige

Hisako Takihana as Sumi Takenaka

Eitarō Shindō as (uncredited)