Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
| Lord Hidetora Ichimonji | Tatsuya Nakadai |
| Taro Takatora Ichimonji | Akira Terao |
| Jiro Masatora Ichimonji | Jinpachi Nezu |
| Saburo Naotora Ichimonji | Daisuke Ryū |
| Lady Kaede | Mieko Harada |
| Lady Sue | Yoshiko Miyazaki |
| Tsurumaru | Mansai Nomura |
| Shuri Kurogane | Hisashi Igawa |
| Kyoami | Shinnosuke Ikehata |
| Tango Hirayama | Masayuki Yui |
| Kageyu Ikoma | Kazuo Katō |
| Shumenosuke Ogura | Norio Matsui |
| Mondo Naganuma | Toshiya Ito |
| Fujimaki's General | Heihachiro Suzuki |
| Samon Shirane | Kenji Kodama |
| Kaede's lady in waiting | Haruko Tōgō |
| Hideota's concubine | Reiko Nanjo |
| Sue's lady in waiting | Tokie Kanda |
| Hidetora's concubine | Sawako Kochi |
| Sue's lady in waiting | Kumeko Otowa |
| Koyota Hatakeyama | Takeshi Katō |
| Seiji Ayabe | Jun Tazaki |
| Nobuhiro Fujimaki | Hitoshi Ueki |
| Takao Zushi | |
| Yoshitaka Zushi | |
| Tetsuo Yamashita | |
| Akihiko Sugizaki | |
| Masaaki Sasaki | |
| (uncredited) | Satoru Fukasaku |
| Foot soldier (uncredited) | Susumu Terajima |
