Richard Chamberlain

Pilot-Major John Blackthorne / Anjin-san

Toshirō Mifune

Lord Yoshi Toranaga

Yoko Shimada

Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko

John Rhys-Davies

Vasco Rodrigues

Alan Badel

Father Dell'Aqua

Frankie Sakai

Yabu

Vladek Sheybal

Captain Ferriera

Yûki Meguro

Omi

Michael Hordern

Friar Domingo

George Innes

Johann Vinck

Damien Thomas

Father Alvito

Hideo Takamatsu

Lord Buntarō

Hiromi Senno

Fujiko

Leon Lissek

Father Sebastio

Nobuo Kaneko

Ishido

Takeshi Ōbayashi

Urano

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Galley Captain

Akira Sera

Old Gardener

Miiko Taka

Kiri

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

Anne Bancroft

Narrator