cast
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Richard Chamberlain
Pilot-Major John Blackthorne / Anjin-san
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Toshirō Mifune
Lord Yoshi Toranaga
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Yoko Shimada
Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko
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John Rhys-Davies
Vasco Rodrigues
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Damien Thomas
Father Alvito
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Frankie Sakai
Yabu
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Yūki Meguro
Omi
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Hiromi Senno
Fujiko
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Alan Badel
Father Dell'Aqua
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Miiko Taka
Kiri
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Vladek Sheybal
Captain Ferriera
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Nobuo Kaneko
Ishido
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Hideo Takamatsu
Lord Buntarō
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Michael Hordern
Friar Domingo
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George Innes
Johann Vinck
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Leon Lissek
Father Sebastio
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Takeshi Ōbayashi
Urano
- Hiroshi Hasegawa Galley Captain
- Akira Sera Old Gardener
- Atsuko Sano Lady Ochiba
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Masumi Okada
Brother Michael
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Edward Peel
Pieterzoon
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Eric Richard
Maetsukker
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Neil McCarthy
Spillbergen
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Seiji Miyaguchi
Muraji
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Yōsuke Natsuki
Zataki
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William Morgan Sheppard
Specz
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Shin Takuma
Naga
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Ai Matsubara
Rako
- John J. Carney Ginsel
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Tōru Abe
Hiromatsu
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Orson Welles
Narrator
- Ian Jentle Salamon
- Stewart MacKenzie Croocq
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Hyōe Enoki
Jirobei
- Steve Ubels Roper
- Yuko Kada Sazuko
- Yumiko Morishita Asa
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Masashi Ebara
Suga
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Yoshie Kitsuda
Kyoko / Gyoko
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Midori Takei
Sono
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Rinichi Yamamoto
Yoshinaka
- Setsuko Sekine Genjiko