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Shiro Sano

Shiro Sano

Actor · Born March 4, 1955 · Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan

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Biography

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). 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.

Acted in 257

2020s

  1. 2026
  2. Ultraman Teo

    Takayuki Tsukahara · 2 episodes

  3. Blood on Snow

    Movie

  4. Is It Too Late for Sushi?

    Tateishi Funao · 10 episodes

  5. 2025

    The Flying Tackle: A Great Whirlwind

    Daizo Sawada

  6. AOSHO! Voices in Bloom

    Movie

  7. Dr. Ashura

    Katsuji Fudo · 11 episodes

  8. 2024
  9. Shimane Multiverse Den

    Movie

  10. 2023
  11. 疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕

    Movie

  12. 2022

    The Killer Inside

    Masato Shirabishi · 9 episodes

  13. 暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕

    Movie

  14. "Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira

    Movie

  15. 2021
  16. So Close! Detective Oshii 2

    Enoshita Chikara · 8 episodes

  17. 2020
  18. Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira

    TV

  19. Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano

    Mitsunori Yagawa

  20. Secret of 10

    Yutaka Naganuma · 10 episodes

  21. Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman

    Movie

2010s

  1. 2019

    Black Lizard

    Movie

  2. Top League

    TV

  3. So Close! Detective Oshii

    Chikara Enoshita · 4 episodes

  4. An Artist of the Floating World

    Dr. Saito

  5. We Are Little Zombies

    Kamo Keiichiro

  6. 2018
  7. Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special

    Movie

  8. Harassment Game

    Mizutani Itsuro · 9 episodes

  9. Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu

    Movie

  10. The Habitation

    Seiji Terauchi · 8 episodes

  11. My Little Monster

    Taizo Yoshida, Taizou Yoshida

  12. I Will Never Forgive

    Movie

  13. Spring Has Come

    Shuji Kishikawa · 5 episodes

  14. 2017

    確証~警視庁捜査三課

    Movie

  15. Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis

    Movie

  16. Tatara Samurai

    Tokugawa’s vassal

  17. Parks

    Movie

  18. Random Lives

    Tadao

  19. Silver and Gold

    Akio Nakajima · 3 episodes

  20. 2016
  21. Zen and Bones

    Tatsuo Ishii

  22. Yuriko's Picture Book

    Movie

  23. The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

    Movie

  24. Enishi: The Bride of Izumo

    Yasuo Soda

  25. Whispers from a Crime Scene

    Yuzo Shindo · 10 episodes

  26. 2015
  27. Police Precinct Soul

    Muneo Yamaoka

  28. Mr. Love Chemistry 2

    Movie

  29. 2014
  30. Osoroshi

    TV

  31. Magnet Man

    Movie

  32. Eat and Sleep Together, Live Together

    Machida Yuzo · 8 episodes

  33. Oh! Father

    Satoru

  34. Tokusou

    Norio Shinohara · 5 episodes

  35. The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom

    Tankuro Hinode

  36. Housekeeper the Peeper

    Taizan Kitamura

  37. Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel

    Movie

  38. The Locked Room Murders SP

    Tetsuji Hiramatsu

  39. 2013

    Miroku

    Movie

  40. Dandarin Rules

    Shigeo Manabe · 11 episodes

  41. Under the Nagasaki Sky

    Morikazu Kadota

  42. Trembling Cow

    TV

  43. The Intermission

    Movie

  44. The Farthest Galaxy

    TV

  45. ミエリーノ柏木

    TV

  46. 2012
  47. Rich Man, Poor Woman

    Yamashita · 11 episodes

  48. 波の塔

    이시이 테츠오

  49. Future Diary Another World

    Toru · 11 episodes

  50. The Locked Room Murders

    Hiramatsu Tetsuji · 1 episode

  51. Rock'n'Roll Housewives

    Movie

  52. 2011
  53. A Taste of Honey

    Tadashi Kirishima · 11 episodes

  54. Hayabusa

    Kawabuchi

  55. Dōki

    TV

  56. 2010

    Kyukei no Koya

    TV

  57. Railways

    Nobuo Ishikawa

  58. Left-Eye Detective

    Yuya Fukuchi · 8 episodes

  59. If Blessed

    Movie

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. Miyoko

    Movie

  3. The Code

    Detective 501

  4. Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster

    Dr. Murakami

  5. 2008
  6. The Yagyu Conspiracy

    Movie

  7. Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special

    Movie

  8. Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects

    Himeself

  9. Kitaro and the Millennium Curse

    Jakotsu Babaa

  10. The Taste of Fish

    Movie

  11. 2007

    Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007

    Kagaya Genemon

  12. Wives Make the World Go Round

    TV

  13. 王様の心臓〜リア王より〜

    黒田数男 · 1 episode

  14. 2006
  15. Vanished

    Movie

  16. Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special

    半沢杜夫

  17. Kuitan

    Shuji Igarashi · 20 episodes

  18. Satomi Hakkenden

    Daiki Makuwari · 2 episodes

  19. 2005

    Detective Office 5

    501

  20. Onna Keiji Mizuki: Kyoto Rakusai Sho Monogatari

    Okita Tomohito · 8 episodes

  21. The Passed Scene

    Kazuo Shimosaka

  22. The Sun

    The chamberlain

  23. 2004
  24. Vampire Host

    Tenran · 12 episodes

  25. Dollhouse

    Chief Tasaki · 10 episodes

  26. Oh! My Zombie Mermaid

    Yamaji

  27. 2003
  28. 朱夏~警视厅恐吓事件

    Movie

  29. Time Limit

    Movie

  30. Rika

    Movie

  31. Cop Festival: New Beginning

    Movie

  32. Kao

    Osamu Minoda(箕田 修) · 1 episode

  33. An Autumn Afternoon

    Koichi Hirayama

  34. 2002

    Aiki

    Movie

  35. Shangri-La

    Kuwata

  36. Picaresque

    Movie

  37. Kamaitachi no Yoru

    Movie

  38. しあわせのシッポ

    竹屋喜好 · 8 episodes

  39. Kewaishi

    Movie

  40. 2001
  41. Platonic Sex

    Ishikawa · 2 episodes

  42. 2000

    The Armchair Detective's Christmas Eve

    Movie

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. Karaoke

    Movie

  3. Good News

    TV

  4. Kimi to Ita Mirai no Tame ni ~ I'll be back

    TV

  5. 1998

    Frozen Summer

    Oikawa Kenichi · 11 episodes

  6. 1997

    Blue Bird

    Hiromu Watanuki · 11 episodes

  7. Cat's Eye

    Chief

  8. The Defender

    Wizard

  9. 1996

    Spring and Chaos

    Kenji Miyazawa

  10. Love and Lies

    TV

  11. Target

    Movie

  12. Invisible Man

    TV

  13. 1995

    Snow falls on a southern island

    Movie

  14. Endless Waltz

    Movie

  15. Sashow The Last Case

    TV

  16. Sharaku

    Utamaro

  17. Burai-Heiya

    Tadao

  18. 1994

    Watashi no Unmei

    Katagiri Shuntaro · 21 episodes

  19. The Mystery of Rampo

    Officer

  20. It's a Summer Vacation Everyday

    Nariyuki Rinkaiji

  21. 長男の嫁

    TV

  22. Hana no Ran

    Ashikaga Yoshimi · 37 episodes

  23. Rampo - Bewitching Women

    Movie

  24. 1993

    The Anthropology of a Fight Scene

    Movie

  25. Rainbow Bridge

    Movie

  26. Gensen-Kan Inn

    Yoshiharu Tsuge

  27. The Secret

    Yamada Mario · 12 episodes

  28. 誰にも言えない

    TV

  29. The Brutal Insanity of Love

    Tetsuro Muraki

  30. Double Kitchen

    TV

  31. Haruka, Nostalgia

    Tutor

  32. My Beloved Ultraseven

    Tetsuo Kinjo

  33. 1992

    Garo Video 3: Hisago

    Movie

  34. The Rocking Horsemen

    Noritane Itoh

  35. Can You Collect It?

    Movie

  36. Sosuke Loses His Lover

    Shinji Kitamura

  37. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

    Takuji Hirata

  38. Zutto Anata ga Sukidatta

    TV

  39. Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo

    Movie

  40. Red Foliage

    Shunji Muroi

  41. Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown

    Movie

  42. Swimming with Tears

    Movie

  43. Tokyo Elevator Girl

    TV

  44. 1991

    Shimanto River

    Movie

  45. TVO

    Detective Takatsuka

  46. King's Playing With Fire

    Movie

  47. Discontinuous Bombing Incident

    Movie

  48. 1990
  49. Lady Battle Cop

    Henry Ohba

  50. Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars

    Correspondent Morita

  51. Natsu no pēji

    Kazuki

  52. The Legend of Zipang

    Bunshichi

No release date

  1. 逆賊の幕臣

    Fukusai Hayashi · 1 episode

Directed 2

2000s

  1. 2006

    A Drop of Dew: Shoji Ueda's Photographs that Woke the World

    Director

1990s

  1. 1999

    Karaoke

    Director

Wrote 1

1990s

  1. 1999

    Karaoke

    Story

Created 1

1990s

  1. 1992

    Tokyo Elevator Girl

    Creator

Appearances4

2020s

  1. 2020

    Godzilla's Leading Ladies

    Himself

2000s

  1. 2005

    Arthouse Ultraman

    Narrator

  2. 2004

    Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy

    Narrator (voice) · 26 episodes

  3. Takada Wataru Teki

    Self