 | Toshirō Mifune als Rokurota Makabe |
 | Minoru Chiaki als Tahei |
 | Kamatari Fujiwara als Matashichi |
 | Misa Uehara als Princess Yuki |
 | Susumu Fujita als General Hyoe Tadokoro |
 | Takashi Shimura als Izumi Nagakura |
 | Eiko Miyoshi als Old Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited) |
 | Toshiko Higuchi als Farmer's Daughter bought from slave trader (uncredited) |
 | Yū Fujiki als Barrier guard (uncredited) |
 | Yoshio Tsuchiya als Samurai on horse (uncredited) |
 | Kokuten Kōdō als Old man in front of sign (uncredited) |
 | Takeshi Katō als Fleeing, bloody samurai (uncredited) |
 | Kōji Mitsui als Guard (uncredited) |
 | Toranosuke Ogawa als Magistrate of the bridge barrier (uncredited) |
 | Kichijirô Ueda als Slave Trader (uncredited) |
 | Nakajirō Tomita als Potential slave buyer (uncredited) |
 | Yoshifumi Tajima als Potential slave buyer (uncredited) |
 | Ikio Sawamura als Gambler (uncredited) |
| Senkichi Ômura als Soldier (uncredited) |
 | Sachio Sakai als Captured foot soldier (uncredited) |
 | Makoto Satō als Yamada foot soldier (uncredited) |
 | Yoshio Kosugi als Akisuki soldier (uncredited) |
 | Akira Tani als Captured foot soldier (uncredited) |
 | Yutaka Sada als Guard at bridge barrier (uncredited) |
| Takeo Oikawa als Guard at pass barrier (uncredited) |
 | Tadao Nakamaru als Young Man (uncredited) |
| Takuzō Kumagai als Yamana foot soldier (as Jirô Kumagai) (uncredited) |
 | Shôichi Hirose als Yamana soldier (uncredited) |
| Etsurō Saijō als Yamana samurai (uncredited) |
| Masayoshi Nagashima als Yamana samurai (uncredited) |
| Fuminori Ôhashi als Samurai (uncredited) |
 | Shin Ôtomo als Samurai on horseback (uncredited) |
| Minoru Itō als Samurai on horseback (uncredited) |
| Haruo Suzuki als Samurai on horseback (uncredited) |
| Shigekatsu Kanazawa als Samurai on horseback (uncredited) |
| Kazuo Higata als (uncredited) |
 | Haruo Nakajima als Akisuki soldier (uncredited) |
| Ryū Kuze als Akitsuki soldier (uncredited) |
 | Ichirô Chiba als Yamana foot soldier (uncredited) |
| Shigemi Sunagawa als (uncredited) |
| Rinsaku Ogata als Second Young Man (uncredited) |
| Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi als Samurai on horseback (uncredited) |
| Haruya Sakamoto als Samurai on horseback (uncredited) |
| Akira Kurosawa | Screenplay |
| Akira Kurosawa | Director |
| Akira Kurosawa | Editor |
| Akira Kurosawa | Producer |
| Akira Kurosawa | Writer |
| Shinobu Hashimoto | Writer |
| Hideo Oguni | Writer |
| Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
| Masaru Satō | Original Music Composer |
| Kazuo Yamasaki | Director of Photography |
| Eiji Tsuburaya | Visual Effects |
| Yoshirō Muraki | Production Design |
| Ryūzō Kikushima | Writer |
| Yôichi Matsue | Assistant Director |
| Yoshimitsu Banno | Assistant Director |
| Masahiro Katô | Costume Design |
| Samaji Nonagase | Assistant Director |
| Ichirô Inohara | Lighting Technician |
| Yoshiko Matsumoto | Hairstylist |
| Junjirô Yamada | Hairstylist |
