The Man in the High Castle (TV series)

Setting

Cast

Main

• Alexa Davalos as Juliana Crain, a young woman from San Francisco who is outwardly happy living under Japanese control. She is an expert in aikido and is friendly with the Japanese people who live in San Francisco. As Juliana learns of The Man in the High Castle and his films, she begins to rebel.
• Rupert Evans as Frank Frink, Juliana's boyfriend at the beginning of the series. He works in a factory creating replicas of prewar American pistols, and creates original jewelry and sketches on his own time. Frank's grandfather was Jewish, making him a target of discrimination. When Juliana vanishes just after the police kill her sister, Frank is taken into custody. Soon after, he turns against the state and works with the American Resistance.
• Luke Kleintank as Joe Blake, a new recruit to the underground American Resistance who is actually an agent working for the SS, under Obergruppenführer John Smith. He transports a reel of the forbidden film The Grasshopper Lies Heavy to the neutral Rocky Mountain States as part of his mission to infiltrate the Resistance. He meets Juliana and quickly falls in love with her, leading to him questioning his allegiance to the Reich.
• DJ Qualls as Ed McCarthy, Frank's co-worker and friend. He closely follows politics and cares very much about Juliana and Frank's well being. Season three reveals that Ed is gay.
• Joel de la Fuente as Chief Inspector Takeshi Kido, the ruthless head of the Kenpeitai stationed in San Francisco.
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Nobusuke Tagomi, the Trade Minister of the Pacific States of America. His true loyalties are ambiguous throughout the first season.
• Rufus Sewell as John Smith, an SS Obergruppenführer, later promoted to SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, and then to Reichsmarschall of North America who is investigating the Resistance in New York. He is a natural-born American who had served in the US Army Signal Corps. He initially lives a comfortable suburban life with a wife and three children but subsequently moves the family to Manhattan.
• Brennan Brown as Robert Childan, an antique store owner who makes secret deals with Frank.
• Callum Keith Rennie as Gary Connell, leader of the West Coast Resistance movement and enforcer for Abendsen.
• Bella Heathcote as Nicole Dörmer, a young Berlin-born filmmaker who crosses paths with Joe, and moves to the US in season three.
• Chelah Horsdal as Helen Smith, John's wife
• Michael Gaston as Mark Sampson, a Jewish friend of Frank's living in San Francisco, who later relocates to the Neutral Zone.
• Jason O'Mara as Wyatt Price, also known as Liam, an Irishman who is a black market supplier of information to Juliana.
• Frances Turner as Bell Mallory, the leader of the Black Communist Rebellion in San Francisco.

  Recurring

• Aaron Blakely as Erich Raeder, an Sturmbannführer working with Smith.
• Carsten Norgaard as Rudolph Wegener, a disillusioned high-ranking Nazi official who trades secrets with Tagomi.
• Rick Worthy as Lemuel "Lem" Washington, the owner of the Sunrise Diner in Canon City and member of the Resistance.
• Camille Sullivan as Karen Vecchione, a leader of the Pacific States branch of the Resistance, later killed in a Kempeitai shoot-out.
• Lee Shorten as Sergeant Hiroyuki Yoshida, Inspector Kido's right-hand man, killed in the bomb attack on Kempeitai headquarters.
• Arnold Chun as Kotomichi, Tagomi's aide-de-camp, who came from the parallel world after his hometown, Nagasaki, was destroyed by an American atomic bomb.
• Bernhard Forcher as Hugo Reiss, the German ambassador to the Japanese Pacific States.
• Christine Chatelain as Laura Crothers, Frank's sister, who is executed as a threat to force a confession from Frank.
• Hank Harris as Randall Becker, a member of the Pacific States branch of the Resistance.
• Allan Havey as the Origami Man, a Sicherheitsdienst operative sent to Canon City to eliminate members of the Resistance.
• Burn Gorman as the Marshal, a bounty hunter searching for concentration camp escapees.
• Shaun Ross as the Shoe Shine Boy, a young albino man living in Canon City.
• Rob LaBelle as Carl, a book store clerk in Canon City who is revealed to be a concentration camp escapee, David P. Frees, killed by the Marshal.
• Geoffrey Blake as Jason Meyer, a Jewish member of the Resistance.
• Daisuke Tsuji as the Crown Prince of Japan
• Mayumi Yoshida as the Crown Princess of Japan
• Amy Okuda as Christine Tanaka, an office worker working in the Nippon Building.
• Neal Bledsoe as Captain Connolly, an American SS officer serving under John Smith, later revealed to be a spy working for Reinhard Heydrich.
• Hiro Kanagawa as Taishi Okamura, the leader of a Yakuza based in the Pacific States.
• Louis Ozawa Changchien as Paul Kasoura, a wealthy lawyer who collects prewar American memorabilia.
• Tao Okamoto as Betty Kasoura, Paul's wife.
• Stephen Root as Hawthorne Abendsen / The Man in the High Castle, the head of the American antifascist resistance, creating films set in other worlds.
• Sebastian Roché as Reichsminister Martin Heusmann, Joe's estranged father and a high-ranking member in the Nazi government.
• Cara Mitsuko as Sarah, a Japanese American Resistance member, Frank's confidante and a survivor of the Manzanar concentration camp.
• Tate Donovan as George Dixon, Trudy's biological father and a member of the resistance in New York City. He is killed by Juliana.
• Michael Hogan as Hagan, an ex-preacher and leader in the San Francisco Resistance.
• Tzi Ma as General Hidehisa Onoda, a leading member of the Japanese Army.
• Giles Panton as Billy Turner, a Nazi Reich American advertising executive who is working with Nicole Dörmer to "erase" the memories of the former U.S. from the minds of the citizens in the Nazi Reich America.
• Ann Magnuson as Caroline Abendsen, the wife of Hawthorne Abendsen.
• Laura Mennell as Thelma Harris, a closeted lesbian gossip column reporter in New York City.
• Janet Kidder as Lila Jacobs, one of the many Jews protected in a Catholic commune in the Neutral Zone.
• Jeffrey Nordling as Dr. Daniel Ryan, a Jungian therapist employed to treat Helen Smith's grief following the death of her son Thomas.
• Akie Kotabe as Sergeant Nakamura, a Japanese-American of mixed ethnicity who works under Kido as Yoshida's replacement.
• Tamlyn Tomita as Tamiko Watanabe, an Okinawan-Hawaiian painter who befriends Tagomi.
• Eijiro Ozaki as Admiral Inokuchi, the head of the Imperial Japanese Navy fleet stationed in the San Francisco Bay.
• James Neate as Jack, a man with whom Ed becomes romantically involved in the Neutral Zone.
• Sen Mitsuji as Toru Kido, Inspector Kido's son who suffers from PTSD.
• Chika Kanamoto as Yukiko, Childan's assistant and later wife.
• Clé Bennett as Elijah, Bell Mallory's lover and one of the members of the BCR.
• David Harewood as Equiano Hampton, the leader of the BCR.
• Rachel Nichols as Martha, Helen Smith's "wife-companion" assigned by the Reich to keep an eye on her.
• Michael Hagiwara as Okami, a Yakuza boss operating in the JPS.
• Bruce Locke as General Yamori, a hardline Japanese general in favour of continuing the occupation of the JPS.
• Eric Lange as General Whitcroft, John Smith's second-in-command.
• Marc Rissmann as Wilhelm Goertzmann, an Obergruppenführer from Berlin
• Rich Ting as Captain Iijima

  John Smith's family

• Quinn Lord as Thomas Smith, John and Helen's son and the eldest child. A member of the Hitler Youth, it is later revealed that he has inherited a form of muscular dystrophy from his father's side of the family. Learning this, he turns himself in to the Reich Sanitation Services and is euthanized. In season four, Lord plays Thomas in an alternate universe where the Axis lost WWII.
• Gracyn Shinyei as Amy Smith, John and Helen's daughter.
• Genea Charpentier as Jennifer Smith, John and Helen's daughter.

  Juliana Crain's family

• Daniel Roebuck as Arnold Walker, Juliana's stepfather and Trudy's father.
• Macall Gordon as Anne Crain Walker, Juliana's mother who is still bitter about losing her husband in World War II.
• Conor Leslie as Trudy Walker, Juliana's half-sister who is shot dead by the Kempeitai. However, she is shown alive at the end of the second season, revealed in the third season to be from an alternate timeline in which it was Juliana who died.

  Nobusuke Tagomi's family

• Yukari Komatsu as Michiko Tagomi, Nobusuke's wife.
• Eddie Shin as Noriaki Tagomi, Nobusuke and Michiko's son.

  Historical characters

• Wolf Muser as Führer Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Greater Nazi Reich.
• Ray Proscia as SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.
• Keone Young as Field Marshal Shunroku Hata.
• Kenneth Tigar as Reichsführer-SS, later Führer, Heinrich Himmler.
• Lisa Paxton as Eva Braun, Hitler's wife, at his side on his deathbed.
• David Furr as Reichsmarschall George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of German-controlled America, plotting against John Smith.
• William Forsythe as J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the American Reich Bureau of Investigation, co-plotting with Rockwell.
• John Hans Tester as Dr. Josef Mengele, the head of the studies about trans-universe travel, realising an enormous traveling machine.
• Gwynyth Walsh as Margarete Himmler, Himmler's wife and the head of the Reich Red Cross.
• Timothy V. Murphy as SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Adolf Eichmann
• Hiromoto Ida as Hirohito

  Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

Season 2 (2016)

Season 3 (2018)

Season 4 (2019)

Production

Filming

Release

Reception

By executive producer Ridley Scott, The Man in the High Castle is unlike anything else on TV, with an immediately engrossing plot driven by quickly developed characters in a fully realized post-WWII dystopia.

Although its plot is admittedly unwieldy, The Man in the High Castles second season expands its fascinating premise in powerful new directions, bolstered by stunning visuals, strong performances, and intriguing new possibilities.

The crafty addition of minor sci-fi elements and a terrific William Forsythe to the show's already engrossing narrative make The Man in the High Castles third season another worthy binge.

The Man in the High Castle finds something close to closure, wrapping up major threads to bring everything full circle in sufficiently dramatic fashion.

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