Toshirō Mifune

Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin

Mike Wilmot

Rich Hall

Tatsuya Nakadai

Hanbei Muroto

Keiju Kobayashi

The Spy

Yûzô Kayama

Iori Izaka

Reiko Dan

Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter

Takashi Shimura

Kurofuji

Kamatari Fujiwara

Takebayashi

Takako Irie

Mutsuta's wife

Masao Shimizu

Kikui

Yūnosuke Itō

Mutsuta, the Chamberlain

Akira Kubo

Samurai

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Samurai

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Samurai

Kunie Tanaka

Samurai

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Samurai

Akihiko Hirata

Samurai

Toranosuke Ogawa

Sachio Sakai

Samurai

Kenzô Matsui

Samurai

Toshiko Higuchi

Maid Koyso

Tatsuhiko Namisato

Samurai

Yutaka Sada

Murota samurai

Gen Shimizu

Shin Ôtomo

Shôichi Hirose

Minoru Itô

Kōji Uruki

Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi

Fuminori Ôhashi