| Gonchunagon | Atsutada | A Japanese nobleman. |
| Nobutaka | Habara | The protagonist of Scheherazade's story. |
| Jimi | Hendrix | An American musician. |
| Erika | Kuritani | Kitaru's girlfriend. |
| Henri | Mancini | An American composer. |
| Eiko | Sakurai | Erika's friend. A tennis player. |
| Gregor | Samsa | The man who transformed into an insect in his dreams. |
| Mr. | Tanimura | Kitaru's friend. A narrator and writer. |
| Dr. | Tokai | A 52-year-old unmarried man. A cosmetic surgeon. |
| Francois | Truffaut | A French film director. |
| Misaki | Watari | Kafuku's newly-hired lady driver. |
| Chekhov | | The author of Uncle Vanya. |
| Goto | | Dr. Tokai's secretary. |
| John | | A member of The Beatles. |
| Kafuku | | The protagonist of the 1st story. An actor. |
| Kamita | | Kino's customer. |
| Kino | | A bar owner. |
| Kitaru | | Mr. Tanimura's friend. The man who translated a Beatles song in Kansai dialect. Aka: Akiyoshi. |
| M | | The mistress of the narrator in Men Without Women's story. |
| Oba | | A garage owner where Kafuku serviced his car. |
| Paul | | A member of The Beatles. Wrote Yesterday. |
| Scheherazade | | Habara's sex buddy. |
| Sonya | | Vanya's lover. |
| Takatsuki | | Lover of Kafuku's wife. |
| Vanya | | The protagonist in the book called Uncle Vanya. |
