Composer
Narrator
Screenwriter
Main Role
- Tanaka Yuuko Main Role
- Kobayashi AyakoTanimura Oshin [Young]Main Role
- Otowa NobukoTanimura Oshin [Old]Main Role
Support Role
- Watase TsunehikoNamiki Kota [Oshin's first love interest]Support Role
- Namiki ShiroTanokura Ryuzo [Oshin's husband]Support Role
- Izumi PinkoTanimura Fuji [Oshin's mother]Support Role
- Ito ShiroTanimura Sazuko [Oshin's father]Support Role
- Oji MichioTanimura Naka [Oshin's grandmother]Support Role
- Watanabe EriTanimura Tora [Shoji's wife]Support Role
- Sendo NobukoTanimura Haru [Oshin's older sister] [Young]Support Role
- Senno HiromiTanimura Haru [Oshin's older sister]Support Role
- Hasegawa MayumiTanimura Mitsu [Oshin's older sister] [Young]Support Role
- Azuma TerumiYashiro Kayo [Oshin's friend - same age]Support Role
- Nagaoka TerukoYashiro Kuni [Kayo's grandmother]Support Role
- Kobayashi ChitoseYashiro Mino [Kayo's mother]Support Role
- Ishida TaroYashiro Seitaro [Kayo's father]Support Role
- Kitamura KazuoTanokura Daigoro [Ryuzo's father]Support Role
- Takamori KazukoTanokura Kiyo (Ryuzo's Mother)Support Role
- Kitamura SoichiroTanokura Fukutaro [Ryuzo's older brother]Support Role
- Imafuku MasaoImamura Gen'emon [Apprentice]Support Role
- Fuke NorimasaTanokura Yuu [Oshin's oldest son]Support Role
- Yamashita ShinjiTanokura Hitoshi [Oshin's son]Support Role
- Notake KazukoTanokura Sada [Oshin's second daughter - Young]Support Role
- Tanaka MisakoTanokura Michiko [Hitoshi's wife - Young]Support Role
- Asaji YokoTanokura Michiko [Hitoshi's wife]Support Role
- Ohashi GoroTanokura Kei [Nozomi's son]Support Role
- Kawakami MaikoTanokura Midori [Hitoshi's second daughter]Support Role
- Tanaka YoshikoTanokura Hatsuko [Oshin's adopted daughter]Support Role
- Watanabe MisakoHasegawa Taka [Hairdressing shop owner]Support Role
- Ishimatsu GutsNakazawa Ken [Yakuza member]Support Role
- Akagi HarueKamiyama Hisa [Kota's aunt]Support Role
- Hiraizumi SeiNakagawa Gunji [Nakagawa Timber Store owner]Support Role
- Maruyama HirokoTsune [Apprentice of Nakagawa Timber Store]Support Role
- Mitsuishi KenSadaji [Apprentice of Nakagawa Timber Store]Support Role
- Nakamura MasatoshiShunsaku [Deserter]Support Role
- Watanabe FumikoRiki [Tanimura Family friend]Support Role
- Tsumura TakashiSakuragi Norio [Oshin's former fiancé]Support Role
- Kaneda AkioHirano [Haru's love interest]Support Role
- Ebata TakashiKatsujiSupport Role
- Tanigawa MiyukiYaeko [Cafe "Athens" employee]Support Role
- Hasegawa TetsuoNamiki Muneo [Kota's son]Support Role
- Saito YosukeKawamura Seiichi [Yuu's friend]Support Role
- Nagato HiroyukiKawabe Senzo [Michiko's father]Support Role
- Imai KazukoKawabe Nami [Michiko's mother]Support Role
- Kazami AkikoFumi [Eizo's wife]Support Role
- Kimura Midori Support Role
- Matsuda YojiTanokura Yuu [Oshin's oldest son] (teen)Support Role
- Takahashi EtsushiTakura JinSupport Role
- Kataoka ShizukaNamigi KakoSupport Role
- Okubo MasanobuMatsuzo [Dialect Instructor]Support Role
- Shimokawa Ena Support Role
Guest Role
- Kusamura Reiko[Ginzan onsen innkeeper]Guest Role
- Mikami KanMatsudaGuest Role
- Unayama Hiroshi(Ep.223)Guest Role
- Yonezawa Yuka(Ep. 268-269, 275, 283)Guest Role
- Ozawa EtsukoMaid (Ep.81)Guest Role
- Tamura MotoharuKajii (Ep. 88)Guest Role
- Ishiguro Masao(Ep. 79, 149)Guest Role
- Nagawa ShinobuRitsuGuest Role
- Kamiyama Takuzo(Ep. 114)Guest Role
- Abe Mitsuko(Ep. 22)Guest Role
- Endo Akiko(Ep. 231)Guest Role
Unknown
- Arai Kazuo Unknown
- Arai Kazunori Unknown
- Yamazaki Mitsuru Unknown
- Abe Wataru Unknown
- Shioya Toshi Unknown
- Nozawa Yukari Unknown
- Shintomi Shigeo Unknown
- Kodera Daisuke Unknown
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