Setsuko Hara

as Taeko Nasu

Masayuki Mori

as Kinji Kameda

Toshirō Mifune

as Denkichi Akama

Yoshiko Kuga

as Ayako

Takashi Shimura

as Ono, Ayako's father

Chieko Higashiyama

as Satoko, Ayako's mother

Eijirō Yanagi

as Tohata

Minoru Chiaki

as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary