Toshirō Mifune

Kingo Gondo

Tatsuya Nakadai

Chief Detective Tokura

Kyōko Kagawa

Reiko Gondo

Tatsuya Mihashi

Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary

Isao Kimura

Detective Arai

Kenjirō Ishiyama

Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi

Takeshi Katō

Detective Nakao

Takashi Shimura

Chief of Investigation Section

Jun Tazaki

Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director

Nobuo Nakamura

Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director

Yūnosuke Itō

Baba - National Shoes Executive

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern

Minoru Chiaki

First Reporter

Eijirō Tōno

Factory Worker

Masao Shimizu

Prison Warden

Yutaka Sada

Aoki - the Chauffeur

Masahiko Shimazu

Shinichi Aoki

Kōji Mitsui

Second Reporter

Kyū Sazanka

First Creditor

Susumu Fujita

Chief of First Investigating Section

Kamatari Fujiwara

Junkyard Cook

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Detective Murata

Kazuo Kitamura

Third Reporter

Gen Shimizu

Chief Physician

Akira Nagoya

Detective Yamamoto

Jun Hamamura

Second Creditor

Masao Oda

First Executor at Tax Office

Kō Nishimura

Third Creditor

Yoshifumi Tajima

Chief Prison Officer

Tomo Suzuki

Detective Koike

Senkichi Ōmura

Messenger Passing Note to Intern

Ikio Sawamura

Yokohama Station Trolley Man

Kin Sugai

Female Drug Addict

Keiko Tomita

Murder Victim

Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Detective Ueno

Kenji Kodama

Detective Hara

Kōzō Nomura

Detective (uncredited)