Michiyo Aratama

First Wife (segment "The Black Hair")

Rentaro Mikuni

Husband (segment "The Black Hair")

Misako Watanabe

Second Wife (segment "The Black Hair")

Kenjirō Ishiyama

Father (segment "The Black Hair")

Ranko Akagi

Mother (segment "The Black Hair")

Fumie Kitahara

(segment "The Black Hair")

Kappei Matsumoto

(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Yoshiko Ieda

(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Otome Tsukimiya

(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Kenzō Tanaka

(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Kiyoshi Nakano

(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Tatsuya Nakadai

Minokichi (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Keiko Kishi

Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Yūko Mochizuki

Minokichi's Mother (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Kin Sugai

Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Noriko Sengoku

Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Akiko Nomura

(segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)

Torahiko Hamada

(segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)

Jun Hamamura

(segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Katsuo Nakamura

Hoichi (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Tetsuro Tamba

Warrior (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Takashi Shimura

Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Yoichi Hayashi

Attendant (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Eiko Muramatsu

Kenreiinmon (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Kunie Tanaka

Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Kazuo Kitamura

Tomomori (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Ichirō Nakatani

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Masanori Tomotake

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Tokue Hanazawa

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Shizue Natsukawa

Tokiko (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Shin Tatsuoka

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Makiko Kitashiro

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Masakazu Kuwayama

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Akira Tani

Huntsman #2 (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Yousuke Kondou

Benkei (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kiyoshi Yamamoto

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kinji Omino

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Atsuo Nakamura

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Ginzô Sekiguchi

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Akio Miyabe

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Gen'ya Nagai

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Toru Uchida

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Hikaru Jinno

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Toshio Fukuhara

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kirô Abe

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Toshiro Yagi

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Yuriko Abe

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Yuri Satô

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kyōichi Satō

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Nobuo Aikawa

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Taiji Kodama

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Nobuaki Maeda

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Teruhiko Shibata

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Haruo Kaji

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Michio Gina

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Seiji Tabe

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Mitsuko Narita

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Noriko Mikura

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Aiko Nagayama

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Michiko Nakahata

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kan'emon Nakamura

Kannai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Osamu Takizawa

Author / Narrator (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Haruko Sugimura

Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Noboru Nakaya

Shikibu Heinai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Seiji Miyaguchi

Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Kei Satō

Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Shigeru Kōyama

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Jun Tazaki

Kannai's Colleague #1 (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Junkichi Orimoto

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Akiji Kobayashi

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Yoshirō Aoki

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Isao Tamagawa

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Hideyo Amamoto

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Ganjirō Nakamura II

Publisher (segment "In a Cup of Tea")