•
Ken Takakura as Captain Tokushima (徳島) •
Kin'ya Kitaōji as Captain Kanda (神田) •
Yūzō Kayama as Captain Kurata (倉田) •
Rentarō Mikuni as Major Yamada (山田) •
Komaki Kurihara as Hatsuko Kanda (Captain Kanda's wife) •
Hideji Otaki as Colonel Nakabayashi (中林) •
Shōgo Shimada as General Tomoda, commander of the 4th Brigade (友田) •
Akira Hamada as Lieutenant Tanabe (田辺) •
Mariko Kaga as Taeko Tokushima (Captain Tokushima's wife) •
Kenichi Kato as Sublieutenant Takahata (高畑) •
Ren Ebata as Apprentice Officer Funayama (船山) •
Gin Maeda as Corporal Saitō (斎藤) •
Kin Sugai as Saitō's mother •
Ben Hiura as Satō (佐藤) •
Kumiko Akiyoshi as Takiguchi Sawa, a local mountain guide from Utarube village (滝口さわ) •
Hanasawa Tokue as Takiguchi Denzō, Utarube villager and adoptive father of Sawa (滝口伝蔵) •
Yoshi Kato as Saemon, chief of Tamogino village (作右衛門) •
Jun Tazaki as Sadao Suzuki, master of the Sanbongi
relay station (鈴木貞雄) •
Isao Tamagawa as Captain Okitsu (沖津) •
Katsu Ryuzaki as Army surgeon Nagano (永野（ながの）三等軍医) •
Takuya Fujioka as Major Monma, commander of the 1st Battalion (門間) •
Shigeru Koyama as Major Kinomiya, officer at the regimental headquarters (木宮) •
Katsutoshi Arata as Eto (江藤) •
Michihiro Yamanishi as Noguchi (野口) •
Kensaku Morita as Sublieutenant Mikami (三上) •
Kohei Takayama as Apprentice Officer Nagao (長尾) •
Keiju Kobayashi as Commander Tsumura (津村) •
Ken Ogata as Corporal Murayama (村山) •
Tetsurō Tamba as Colonel Kojima (小島) •
Funahashi Saburō as Saikai Yūjirō, a
war correspondent for the
Tō-Ō Nippō (西海勇次郎) ==See also==