Cameos
- Toshiro Mifune plays a short part as a Benshi, a Japanese performer who acts as a narrator for silent films.
- Actor Jason Scott Lee plays an uncredited cameo role as a Japanese laborer during a scene when the workers collect their pay and an inter-ethnic fight nearly erupts.
- A number of renowned Hawaii-based performers appeared in cameo roles, including the late Moe Keale and taiko artist Kenny Endo.
- Yoko Sugi, one of Japan's leading post-war actresses (starring in films by Kon Ichikawa and Mikio Naruse, among others), appears briefly early in the film, as Riyo's aunt.
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