Jiang Wen
Ma Dasan

Hongbo Jiang
Yu'er

香川照之
Kosaburo Hanaya

吳大維
Major Gao

Ding Yuan
Dong Hanchen

Cong Zhijun
Grandfather

Li Congxi
Liu Wang

李海濱
Me

澤田拳也
Inokichi Sakatsuka

Chen Shu
Qiye

Cai Weidong
Er Bozi

Chen Lianmei
Aunt

Yoshimoto Miyaji
Koji Nonomura

Qiang Chen
Lone-Stroke Liu

Jianquan Shi
Brother-in-law

Katsuhiro Nagano
Telephone Line Layers

Ryosuke Uomi
Telephone Line Layers

Yunshen Bai
Liu Wang's Father

Haizhao Zhou
Little Thresher Yu'er's son

Haidong Xu
De'rtou

Shiru Du
De'rtou's Father

Youren He
Drum Singer

Yihe Wang
Drum Singer

Junji Kajioka
Japanese Officer

山田将之
Japanese Officer

Yuta Ishiyama
Japanese Officer

Yayoi Inoue
Japanese prostitute

Eri Kitahara
Japanese prostitute

Mirei Nakahara
Japanese prostitute

Tomoko Itaya
Japanese prostitute

Etsuko Morita
Japanese prostitute

Mineko Kokaji
Japanese prostitute

述平
KMT Army Officer

Hu Jiang
KMT Army Soldier

James W. Mayfield
US Marine

Abram Sauer
US Marine

Jincai Jiang
Japanese dancer

Mamoru Yamada
Japanese soldier

Yoshimoto Inoue
Japanese soldier

Daisaku Uchino
Japanese soldier

Makoto Shibazaki
Japanese soldier

Junichi Kajioka
Japanese sergeant (uncredited)

Hongbo Jiang
Yu Er