About Soviet and Japanese volley-ball players who are both rivals and friends. The events cover the period from the 1976 Montreal Olympics to the eve of XXII Olympics in Moscow.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Teruhiko SaigōShohei Yoshioka | Shohei Yoshioka |
| MMegumi IsogaiMegumi Miki | Megumi Miki |
 Tatyana TashkovaTanya Karpova | Tanya Karpova |
 Tamao NakamuraIne Miki | Ine Miki |
 Inara GuliyevaSvetlana Sergeeva | Svetlana Sergeeva |
 Valeri RyzhakovMikhail Vasilyevich Kamenetskiy | Mikhail Vasilyevich Kamenetskiy |
 Mikhail BoyarskiyMikhail Bartenev | Mikhail Bartenev |
 Aleksei MokrousovNot listed | Not listed |
 Anatoliy RomashinNikolay Sergeevich Tvertsov | Nikolay Sergeevich Tvertsov |
 Tetsuro TambaPresident Sakakibara | President Sakakibara |
 Tatsuya MihashiKenzo Masuda | Kenzo Masuda |
 Mizuho SuzukiNot listed | Not listed |
 Sofiya PilyavskayaNot listed | Not listed |
 Hirohisa NakataNot listed | Not listed |
 Liliya ZakharovaNot listed | Not listed |
| HHarumi TokunagaJapanese interpreter | Japanese interpreter |
| NNatalya TabakovaNot listed | Not listed |
| TTomokazu MiuraNarrator (voice) | Narrator (voice) |