Toshirō Mifune

Character: Kiichi Nakajima

Takashi Shimura

Character: Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada

Minoru Chiaki

Character: Jiro Nakajima

Masao Shimizu

Character: Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband

Eiko Miyoshi

Character: Toyo Nakajima

Kyoko Aoyama

Character: Sue Nakajima

Haruko Tōgō

Character: Yoshi Nakajima

Noriko Sengoku

Character: Kimie Nakajima

Akemi Negishi

Character: Asako Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Character: Ryoichi Sayama

Kichijirō Ueda

Character: Mr. Kuribayashi father

Eijirō Tōno

Character: Old man from Brazil

Yutaka Sada

Character: Ichiro Nakajima

Kamatari Fujiwara

Character: Okamoto

Ken Mitsuda

Character: Judge Araki

Atsushi Watanabe

Character: Factory Worker Ishida

Kiyomi Mizunoya

Character: Satoko

Gen Shimizu

Character:

Toranosuke Ogawa

Character: Hori, the lawyer

Nobuo Nakamura

Character: Psychologist

Bokuzen Hidari

Character: Landowner

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Character: Factory Worker after Fire

Akira Tani

Character: Chunky Jailbird

Kokuten Kōdō

Character: Workers' Older Family Member

Noriko Honma

Character: Worker family member

Kazuo Katō

Character: Susumu

Yoshiko Miyata

Character: Secretary Tamiya

Toyoko Okubo

Character: Susumu's wife Sumiko

Saoko Yonemura

Character: Taeko

Gorô Sakurai

Character: Factory worker

Senkichi Ōmura

Character: Skinny Jailbird

Haruo Nakajima

Character: Foundry employee (uncredited)

Takuzō Kumagai

Character: Psychiatric nurse (uncredited)