Jūzō Itami

Toru

Mickey Curtis

Yukio

Heihachirô Ôkawa

Yukio's Father

Chieko Murata

Yukio's mother

Sessue Hayakawa

The Old Man

Rumiko Sasa

Setsu

Reiko Higa

Haruko

Noriko Sengoku

Toru's mother

Kôji Shitara

Toru as a boy

Hiroyuki Ôta

Yukio as a Boy

Judy Ongg

Setsu as a girl

Sachiko Atami

Haruko as a girl

Tetsu Nakamura

Toru's Father

Frank Tokunaga

Shigeru Nihonmatsu

Servant