Toshirō Mifune ( 三船敏郎 )

Kiichi Nakajima

Takashi Shimura ( 志村喬 )

Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada

Minoru Chiaki ( 千秋実 )

Jiro Nakajima

Masao Shimizu ( 清水将夫 )

Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband

Eiko Miyoshi ( 三好栄子 )

Toyo Nakajima

Kyoko Aoyama ( 青山京子 )

Sue Nakajima

Haruko Tōgō ( 東郷晴子 )

Yoshi Nakajima

Noriko Sengoku ( 千石規子 )

Kimie Nakajima

Akemi Negishi ( 根岸明美 )

Asako Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Tachikawa ( 太刀川寛 )

Ryoichi Sayama

Kichijirō Ueda ( 上田吉二郎 )

Mr. Kuribayashi father

Eijirō Tōno ( 東野英治郎 )

Old man from Brazil

Yutaka Sada ( 佐田豊 )

Ichiro Nakajima

Kamatari Fujiwara ( 藤原釜足 )

Okamoto

Ken Mitsuda ( 三津田健 )

Judge Araki

Atsushi Watanabe ( 渡辺篤 )

Factory Worker Ishida

Kiyomi Mizunoya ( Kiyomi Mizunoya )

Satoko

Gen Shimizu ( 清水元 )

Toranosuke Ogawa ( 小川虎之助 )

Hori, the lawyer

Nobuo Nakamura ( 中村伸郎 )

Psychologist

Bokuzen Hidari ( 左卜全 )

Landowner

Yoshio Tsuchiya ( 土屋嘉男 )

Factory Worker after Fire

Akira Tani ( 谷晃 )

Chunky Jailbird

Kokuten Kōdō ( 高堂国典 )

Workers' Older Family Member

Noriko Honma ( 本間文子 )

Worker family member

Kazuo Kato ( 加藤和夫 )

Susumu

Yoshiko Miyata ( Yoshiko Miyata )

Secretary Tamiya

Toyoko Okubo ( Toyoko Okubo )

Susumu's wife Sumiko

Saoko Yonemura ( Saoko Yonemura )

Taeko

Gorô Sakurai ( Gorô Sakurai )

Factory worker

Senkichi Ōmura ( 大村千吉 )

Skinny Jailbird

Haruo Nakajima ( 中島春雄 )

Foundry employee (uncredited)

Takuzō Kumagai ( 熊谷卓三 )

Psychiatric nurse (uncredited)