All Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Kiichi Nakajima

Takashi Shimura

Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada

Minoru Chiaki

Jiro Nakajima

Masao Shimizu

Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband

Eiko Miyoshi

Toyo Nakajima

Kyoko Aoyama

Sue Nakajima

Haruko Tōgō

Yoshi Nakajima

Noriko Sengoku

Kimie Nakajima

Akemi Negishi

Asako Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Ryoichi Sayama

Kichijirō Ueda

Mr. Kuribayashi father

Eijirō Tōno

Old man from Brazil

Yutaka Sada

Ichiro Nakajima

Kamatari Fujiwara

Okamoto

Ken Mitsuda

Judge Araki

Atsushi Watanabe

Factory Worker Ishida

Kiyomi Mizunoya

Satoko

Gen Shimizu

Toranosuke Ogawa

Hori, the lawyer

Nobuo Nakamura

Psychologist

Bokuzen Hidari

Landowner

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Factory Worker after Fire

Akira Tani

Chunky Jailbird

Kokuten Kōdō

Workers' Older Family Member

Noriko Honma

Worker family member

Kazuo Kato

Susumu

Yoshiko Miyata

Secretary Tamiya

Toyoko Okubo

Susumu's wife Sumiko

Saoko Yonemura

Taeko

Gorô Sakurai

Factory worker

Senkichi Ōmura

Skinny Jailbird

Haruo Nakajima

Foundry employee (uncredited)

Takuzō Kumagai

Psychiatric nurse (uncredited)