Machiko Kyō

Kikuko (the eldest daughter)

Yōko Tsukasa

Umeko (the second daughter)

Reiko Dan

Sakura (the third daughter)

Yuriko Hoshi

Ayame (the fourth daughter)

Keiju Kobayashi

Ooka (Umeko's husband)

Yōsuke Natsuki

Nomura (Ayame's husband)

Akira Takarada

Kudo

Tadao Takashima

Minegishi (Ooka's friend)

Norihei Miki

Ichirō Arishima

Daisuke Katō

Makoto Satō

Goro (Kudo's younger brother)

Yasuo Tanabe

Tsuruo (the eldest son)

Natsuko Kahara

Asako (Ooka's mother)

Hiroshi Koizumi

Yū Fujiki

Ikio Sawamura

Chōtarō Tōgin

Kondo (Tsuruo's friend)

Shirō Tsuchiya

Yutaka Nakayama

Yutaka Sada

Shōichi Hirose

Haruko Sugimura

Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)

Tatsuya Nakadai