Directed by Akira Kurosawa[1] Screenplay by Senkichi Taniguchi Akira Kurosawa Toshiro Mifune as Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki Miki Sanjo as Misao Matsumoto Takashi Shimura as Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki Kenjiro Uemura as Susumu Nakada Isamu Yamaguchi as Patrolman Nosaka Noriko Sengoku as apprentice nurse Rui Minegishi Chieko Nakakita as Takiko Nakada Kenichi Miyajima as the dealer Masateru Sasaki as the old soldier Seiji Izumi as the policeman Tadashi Date as the father of the boy with appendicitis Shigeyuki Miyajima as the officer