Richard Chamberlain

Pilot-Major John Blackthorne / Anjin-san

Toshirō Mifune

Lord Yoshi Toranaga

Yoko Shimada

Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko

John Rhys-Davies

Vasco Rodrigues

Damien Thomas

Father Alvito

Frankie Sakai

Yabu

Yūki Meguro

Omi

Hiromi Senno

Fujiko

Alan Badel

Father Dell'Aqua

Miiko Taka

Kiri

Vladek Sheybal

Captain Ferriera

Nobuo Kaneko

Ishido

Hideo Takamatsu

Lord Buntarō

Michael Hordern

Friar Domingo

George Innes

Johann Vinck

Leon Lissek

Father Sebastio

Takeshi Ōbayashi

Urano

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Galley Captain

Akira Sera

Old Gardener

Atsuko Sano

Lady Ochiba

Masumi Okada

Brother Michael

Edward Peel

Pieterzoon

Eric Richard

Maetsukker

Neil McCarthy

Spillbergen

Seiji Miyaguchi

Muraji

Yōsuke Natsuki

Zataki

William Morgan Sheppard

Specz

Shin Takuma

Naga

Ai Matsubara

Rako

John J. Carney

Ginsel

Tōru Abe

Hiromatsu

Orson Welles

Narrator

Ian Jentle

Salamon

Stewart MacKenzie

Croocq

Hyōe Enoki

Jirobei

Steve Ubels

Roper

Yuko Kada

Sazuko

Yumiko Morishita

Asa

Masashi Ebara

Suga

Yoshie Kitsuda

Kyoko / Gyoko

Midori Takei

Sono

Rinichi Yamamoto

Yoshinaka

Setsuko Sekine

Genjiko