Obsada:

• Koshiro Matsumoto Chamberlain Kuranosuke Oishi
• Yuzo Kayama Lord Naganori Asano
• Tatsuya Mihashi Yasubei Horibe
• Akira Takarada Gunpei Takada
• Yosuke Natsuki Kinemon Okano
• Makoto Satô Kazuemon Fuwa
• Tadao Takashima Jyujiro Kan
• Seizaburô Kawazu Asano Official
• Takashi Shimura Hyobu Chishaka
• Daisuke Katô Kichiemon Terasaka
• Keiju Kobayashi Awajinokami Wakisake
• Ryo Ikebe Chikara Tsuchiya
• Setsuko Hara Riku Oishi
• Yôko Tsukasa Aguri Asano
• Reiko Dan Okaru
• Yuriko Hoshi Otsuya
• Yumi Shirakawa Ume
• Kumi Mizuno Saho
• Mie Hama Woman Refugee
• Nami Tamura
• Yôko Fujiyama Miyuki the Asano maid
• Junko Ikeuchi of the tea shop Ofumi
• Keiko Awaji Hanbei's wife Otoki
• Mitsuko Kusabue
• Michiyo Aratama Ukigumo
• Hisaya Morishige Hanbei
• Frankie Sakai Heigoro the carpenter
• Norihei Miki the male geisha Toshibei
• Kingoro Yanagiya of the tatami shop Otokichi
• Yoshitomi Masuda Tachu Matsubara
• Mutoshi Yanami of the Ueki shop Tokuzo
• Toru Yuri Heigoro's cousin Nonta
• Toshiaki Minami Heigoro's cousin Denpachi
• Kyu Sazanka Debashu Yanagisawa
• Ichirô Arishima Lord Denpachiro Tamura
• Hiroshi Koizumi Gengo Otaka
• Yu Fujiki Yushichi Takebayashi
• Akira Kubo Lord Date
• Akihiko Hirata Yajuemon Okajima
• Kenji Sahara Asano Samurai
• Hiroshi Tachikawa Aminori Uesugi
• Tatsuyoshi Ehara Daigaku Asano
• Tadao Nakamaru Heihachiro Kobayashi
• Sachio Sakai the spy Shusui Kishima
• Yoshio Tsuchiya Saho's brother Matanosho Shoita
• Kamatari Fujiwara Kyubei the innkeeper
• Jun Tazaki Kiken Murakami
• Susumu Fujita Yosubei Kajikawa
• Ken Uehara of the Chunagons Seikanji
• Jun Funato Sanjyuji Kaizuka
• Kiyoshi Kodama
• Hisaya Ito Sezaemon Oishi
• Kôzô Nomura
• Ko Mishima
• Kunio Otsuka
• Ren Yamamoto Asano Samurai
• Eisei Amamoto of the Chunagons Takano
• Nadao Kirino Asana Samurai
• Heihachiro Okawa Katafu Kanse
• Shigeki Ishida Rishichi
• Akira Tani
• Yoshifumi Tajima
• Ikio Sawamura Tatami Maker
• Yoshio Kosugi Yasubei's father Yahei Hattori
• Sonomi Nakajima Otama
• Machiko Kitagawa the bathing guard Okyo
• Keiko Yanagawa
• Mieko Beni
• Misako Asuka
• Hiromi Mineoka
• Yaeko Izumo
• Haruko Togo Sasaya's wife Okyo
• Atsuko Ichinomiya Kyubei's wife Otomi
• Chieko Nakakita Ofude
• Ryosuke Kagawa Souemon Hara
• Sôji Kiyokawa Matazaemon Fujii
• Unpei Yokoyama Heigoro's uncle Matsuemon
• Haruya Kato
• Yôji Misaki
• Gen Shimizu Gensuke Koga
• Jotaro Togami Ikkaku Shimizu
• Sadako Sawamura Konosuke's wife Tomiko
• Kiyoko Tsuji
• Kumeko Otowa
• Teruko Mita
• Noriko Sakabe
• Naoko Sakabe
• Senkichi Omura Citizen at collapsed bridge
• Shin Otomo
• Yutaka Nakayama
• Mitsuo Tsuda
• Keiichiro Katsumoto
• Hiroshi Akitsu
• Haruo Suzuki
• Jun Kuroki
• Kanzô Uni
• Koji Iwamoto
• Katsumi Tezuka
• Akio Kusama
• Kamayuki Tsubono
• Kosuke Uruki
• Rinsaku Ogata
• Yû Sekida
• Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
• Masaki Shinohara
• Ryuichi Hosokawa
• Saburo Kadowaki
• Tadashi Okabe
• Akira Yamada
• Junpei Natsuki
• Kyôichi Satô
• Kenzo Echigo
• Jiro Mitsuaki
• Ichirô Chiba Yanagihara of the Dainagons
• Shôji Ikeda
• Junichirô Mukai
• Shogoro Ichikawa
• Mannosuke Nakamura Sanpei Kanno
• Michael Higgins Narrator
• Chûsha Ichikawa Lord Yoshinaga Kira
• Toshirô Mifune Genba Tawaraboshi