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Shiro Sano

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Shiro Sano

Born March 4, 1955 in Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan173 films

Shirō Sano (born March 4, 1955, in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor and director. After working with several theater companies, he had his first starring film role in To Sleep so as to Dream (1986) and gained wider recognition through the television drama Zutto Anata ga Suki datta (1992).

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His film credits include Violent Cop (1989), Godzilla 2000 (1999), Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001), and Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). He made his directorial debut with Karaoke in 1999.

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My Way posterFirst watchMy Way20117.9as Tatsuo's FatherDuring the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Violent Cop poster7.2Violent Cop1989Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack poster7.5Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack2001Pokémon 4Ever poster6.5Pokémon 4Ever2001Godzilla 2000: Millennium poster6.9Godzilla 2000: Millennium1999Fukushima 50 poster6.5Fukushima 502020My Little Monster poster7.6My Little Monster2018Good News poster7.0Good News202520th Century Boys: Beginning of the End poster6.720th Century Boys: Beginning of the End2008

Filmography

173 films as actor
  1. 2026Living Corpse(voice)
  2. 2026Ice Blood
  3. 2025The Flying Tackle: A Great WhirlwindDaizo Sawada
  4. 2025Two Seasons, Two StrangersUonuma
  5. 2025AOSHO! Voices in Bloom
  6. 2025Good NewsSugimoto
  7. 2024Silence of the SeaCabinet Minister Kirigaya
  8. 2024Stolen Identity: The Last HackerJung Hak-sun
  9. 2024HappyendPrincipal Nagai
  10. 2024Brush of the God
  11. 2024警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 －炎上－
  12. 2024Shimane Multiverse Den
  13. 2023Dear Kaita AblazeSatoshi
  14. 2023Oshorin
  15. 2023Between the White Key and the Black KeyTakumi
  16. 2023疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
  17. 2022暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
  18. 2022Intimate Stranger
  19. 2022"Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
  20. 2021Kiba: The Fangs of FictionKazuo Kudo
  21. 2021Caution, Hazardous Wife: The MovieNobuo Asanuma
  22. 2020Nezura 1964Azuma
  23. 2020Mother’s Bomb-struck PianoMitsunori Yagawa
  24. 2020Fukushima 50Prime Minister
  25. 2020Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
  26. 2019Black Lizard
  27. 2019Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!!Valma
  28. 2019BOLT
  29. 2019An Artist of the Floating WorldDr. Saito
  30. 2019We Are Little ZombiesKamo Keiichiro
  31. 2018The Great Buddha Arrival
  32. 2018Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special
  33. 2018Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
  34. 2018My Little MonsterTaizo Yoshida
  35. 2018I Will Never Forgive
  36. 2018Roupeiro's Melancholy
  37. 2017確証～警視庁捜査三課
  38. 2017Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis
  39. 2017Tatara SamuraiTokugawa’s vassal
  40. 2017Parks
  41. 2017Random LivesTadao
  42. 2016Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend RidersMichihiko Zaizen / Dr. Pac-Man
  43. 2016Snow Woman
  44. 2016Yuriko's Picture Book
  45. 2016The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
  46. 2016Enishi: The Bride of IzumoYasuo Soda
  47. 2016黒の斜面
  48. 2015Bikuu: The MovieZeshin
  49. 2015Police Precinct SoulMuneo Yamaoka
  50. 2015Mr. Love Chemistry 2
  51. 2015I Alone
  52. 2014KinkiKonomi Mitsuru
  53. 2014Phantom Limb
  54. 2014Magnet Man
  55. 2014Oh! FatherSatoru
  56. 2014The Great Shu Ra Ra BoomTankuro Hinode
  57. 2014Housekeeper the PeeperTaizan Kitamura
  58. 2014Piano in a Storeroom
  59. 2014Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
  60. 2014The Locked Room Murders SPTetsuji Hiramatsu
  61. 2013Miroku
  62. 2013Under the Nagasaki SkyMorikazu Kadota
  63. 2013Reunion
  64. 2013The Intermission
  65. 2012The Millennial RaptureReina
  66. 2012波の塔이시이 테츠오
  67. 2012レベル7犬山刑事
  68. 2012Rock'n'Roll Housewives
  69. 2012Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The MovieAshurada (voice) / Weeval
  70. 2011My WayTatsuo's Father
  71. 2011HayabusaKawabuchi
  72. 2011HESOMORI -ヘソモリ-
  73. 2011WasaoShigeo
  74. 2010Tenohira no memo折川孝之
  75. 2010RailwaysNobuo Ishikawa
  76. 2010If Blessed
  77. 2009Amalfi: Rewards of the GoddessMichio Nishino
  78. 2009Miyoko
  79. 2009The CodeDetective 501
  80. 2009The Triumphant Return of General RougeYuji Kakiya
  81. 2009Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired MonsterDr. Murakami
  82. 2008Life Improvement ClubUeda
  83. 2008The Yagyu Conspiracy
  84. 2008Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special
  85. 200820th Century Boys: Beginning of the EndYan-bô
  86. 2008Kitaro and the Millennium CurseJakotsu Babaa
  87. 2008The Taste of Fish
  88. 2008The Glorious Team BatistaYuji Kakiya
  89. 2008Persona
  90. 2007Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007Kagaya Genemon
  91. 2006Waiting in the DarkAkihiro's Boss
  92. 2006Vanished
  93. 2006Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special半沢杜夫
  94. 2005Detective Office 5501
  95. 2005The Suspect: Muroi Shinji窪園 行雄
  96. 2005The Great Yokai War"Mysterious" Editor
  97. 2005Arthouse UltramanNarrator
  98. 2005The Passed SceneKazuo Shimosaka
  99. 2005All About My DogUncle
  100. 2005The SunThe chamberlain
  101. 2004InfectionKiyoshi Akai
  102. 2004Perfect Education 6
  103. 2004Oh! My Zombie MermaidYamaji
  104. 2003The Battling AngelAshida
  105. 2003The NegotiatorLt. Ando
  106. 2003朱夏～警视厅恐吓事件
  107. 2003Time Limit
  108. 2003Rika
  109. 2003Cop Festival: New Beginning
  110. 2003An Autumn AfternoonKoichi Hirayama
  111. 2002Aiki
  112. 2002Shangri-LaKuwata
  113. 2002Picaresque
  114. 2002Kamaitachi no Yoru
  115. 2002Kewaishi
  116. 2001Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out AttackHaruki Kadokura
  117. 2001The Princess BladeKidokoro
  118. 2001Pokémon 4EverVicious (voice)
  119. 2000The Armchair Detective's Christmas Eve
  120. 1999Godzilla 2000: MillenniumProf. Shiro Miyasaka