Onder andere met: Toshirô Mifune (Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo)), Rentaro Mikuni (Honiden Matahachi), Kuroemon Onoe (Takuan Osho), Kaoru Yachigusa (Otsu), Mariko Okada (Akemi), Mitsuko Mito (Oko, Matahachi`s wife), Eiko Miyoshi (Osugi, Matahachi`s mother), Akihiko Hirata (Seijuro Yoshioka), Kusuo Abe (Temma Tsujikaze), Eitarô Ozawa (Terumasa Ikeda (as Sakae Ozawa)), Akira Tani (Kawarano-Gonroku), Seijiro Onda (Chief Official), Fumito Matsuo (Petty Official), Masanobu Ôkubo (Petty Official), Jiro Kumagai (Villager (as Jirô Kumagawa))