
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
- 2026
Ultraman Teo
Takayuki Tsukahara · 2 episodes
Blood on Snow
Movie
Is It Too Late for Sushi?
Tateishi Funao · 10 episodes
- 2025
The Flying Tackle: A Great Whirlwind
Daizo Sawada
AOSHO! Voices in Bloom
Movie
Dr. Ashura
Katsuji Fudo · 11 episodes
- 2024
Shimane Multiverse Den
Movie
- 2023
疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
Movie
- 2022
The Killer Inside
Masato Shirabishi · 9 episodes
暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
Movie
"Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
Movie
- 2021
So Close! Detective Oshii 2
Enoshita Chikara · 8 episodes
- 2020
Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
TV
Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano
Mitsunori Yagawa
Secret of 10
Yutaka Naganuma · 10 episodes
Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
Movie
2010s
- 2019
Black Lizard
Movie
Top League
TV
So Close! Detective Oshii
Chikara Enoshita · 4 episodes
An Artist of the Floating World
Dr. Saito
We Are Little Zombies
Kamo Keiichiro
- 2018
Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special
Movie
Harassment Game
Mizutani Itsuro · 9 episodes
Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
Movie
The Habitation
Seiji Terauchi · 8 episodes
My Little Monster
Taizo Yoshida, Taizou Yoshida
I Will Never Forgive
Movie
Spring Has Come
Shuji Kishikawa · 5 episodes
- 2017
確証~警視庁捜査三課
Movie
Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis
Movie
Tatara Samurai
Tokugawa’s vassal
Parks
Movie
Random Lives
Tadao
Silver and Gold
Akio Nakajima · 3 episodes
- 2016
Zen and Bones
Tatsuo Ishii
Yuriko's Picture Book
Movie
The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
Movie
Enishi: The Bride of Izumo
Yasuo Soda
Whispers from a Crime Scene
Yuzo Shindo · 10 episodes
- 2015
Police Precinct Soul
Muneo Yamaoka
Mr. Love Chemistry 2
Movie
- 2014
Osoroshi
TV
Magnet Man
Movie
Eat and Sleep Together, Live Together
Machida Yuzo · 8 episodes
Oh! Father
Satoru
Tokusou
Norio Shinohara · 5 episodes
The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom
Tankuro Hinode
Housekeeper the Peeper
Taizan Kitamura
Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
Movie
The Locked Room Murders SP
Tetsuji Hiramatsu
- 2013
Miroku
Movie
Dandarin Rules
Shigeo Manabe · 11 episodes
Under the Nagasaki Sky
Morikazu Kadota
Trembling Cow
TV
The Intermission
Movie
The Farthest Galaxy
TV
ミエリーノ柏木
TV
- 2012
Rich Man, Poor Woman
Yamashita · 11 episodes
波の塔
이시이 테츠오
Future Diary Another World
Toru · 11 episodes
The Locked Room Murders
Hiramatsu Tetsuji · 1 episode
Rock'n'Roll Housewives
Movie
- 2011
A Taste of Honey
Tadashi Kirishima · 11 episodes
Hayabusa
Kawabuchi
Dōki
TV
- 2010
Kyukei no Koya
TV
Railways
Nobuo Ishikawa
Left-Eye Detective
Yuya Fukuchi · 8 episodes
If Blessed
Movie
2000s
- 2009
Miyoko
Movie
The Code
Detective 501
Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster
Dr. Murakami
- 2008
The Yagyu Conspiracy
Movie
Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special
Movie
Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
Himeself
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
Jakotsu Babaa
The Taste of Fish
Movie
- 2007
Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007
Kagaya Genemon
Wives Make the World Go Round
TV
王様の心臓〜リア王より〜
黒田数男 · 1 episode
- 2006
Vanished
Movie
Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special
半沢杜夫
Kuitan
Shuji Igarashi · 20 episodes
Satomi Hakkenden
Daiki Makuwari · 2 episodes
- 2005
Detective Office 5
501
Onna Keiji Mizuki: Kyoto Rakusai Sho Monogatari
Okita Tomohito · 8 episodes
The Passed Scene
Kazuo Shimosaka
The Sun
The chamberlain
- 2004
Vampire Host
Tenran · 12 episodes
Dollhouse
Chief Tasaki · 10 episodes
Oh! My Zombie Mermaid
Yamaji
- 2003
朱夏~警视厅恐吓事件
Movie
Time Limit
Movie
Rika
Movie
Cop Festival: New Beginning
Movie
Kao
Osamu Minoda(箕田 修) · 1 episode
An Autumn Afternoon
Koichi Hirayama
- 2002
Aiki
Movie
Shangri-La
Kuwata
Picaresque
Movie
Kamaitachi no Yoru
Movie
しあわせのシッポ
竹屋喜好 · 8 episodes
Kewaishi
Movie
- 2001
Platonic Sex
Ishikawa · 2 episodes
- 2000
The Armchair Detective's Christmas Eve
Movie
1990s
- 1999
Karaoke
Movie
Good News
TV
Kimi to Ita Mirai no Tame ni ~ I'll be back
TV
- 1998
Frozen Summer
Oikawa Kenichi · 11 episodes
- 1997
Blue Bird
Hiromu Watanuki · 11 episodes
Cat's Eye
Chief
The Defender
Wizard
- 1996
Spring and Chaos
Kenji Miyazawa
Love and Lies
TV
Target
Movie
Invisible Man
TV
- 1995
Snow falls on a southern island
Movie
Endless Waltz
Movie
Sashow The Last Case
TV
Sharaku
Utamaro
Burai-Heiya
Tadao
- 1994
Watashi no Unmei
Katagiri Shuntaro · 21 episodes
The Mystery of Rampo
Officer
It's a Summer Vacation Everyday
Nariyuki Rinkaiji
長男の嫁
TV
Hana no Ran
Ashikaga Yoshimi · 37 episodes
Rampo - Bewitching Women
Movie
- 1993
The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
Movie
Rainbow Bridge
Movie
Gensen-Kan Inn
Yoshiharu Tsuge
The Secret
Yamada Mario · 12 episodes
誰にも言えない
TV
The Brutal Insanity of Love
Tetsuro Muraki
Double Kitchen
TV
Haruka, Nostalgia
Tutor
My Beloved Ultraseven
Tetsuo Kinjo
- 1992
Garo Video 3: Hisago
Movie
The Rocking Horsemen
Noritane Itoh
Can You Collect It?
Movie
Sosuke Loses His Lover
Shinji Kitamura
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Takuji Hirata
Zutto Anata ga Sukidatta
TV
Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo
Movie
Red Foliage
Shunji Muroi
Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
Movie
Swimming with Tears
Movie
Tokyo Elevator Girl
TV
- 1991
Shimanto River
Movie
TVO
Detective Takatsuka
King's Playing With Fire
Movie
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
Movie
- 1990
Lady Battle Cop
Henry Ohba
Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
Correspondent Morita
Natsu no pēji
Kazuki
The Legend of Zipang
Bunshichi
1980s
- 1989
Circus Boys
Hiroshi
The Dancer
Takashi Tanimura
Festival of Dreams
Movie
- 1988
- 1987
- 1986
- 1985
Female Detective Yuko Kasumi
TV
No release date
逆賊の幕臣
Fukusai Hayashi · 1 episode
Directed 2
2000s
- 2006
A Drop of Dew: Shoji Ueda's Photographs that Woke the World
Director
1990s
- 1999
Karaoke
Director
Wrote 1
1990s
- 1999
Karaoke
Story
Created 1
1990s
- 1992
Tokyo Elevator Girl
Creator
Appearances4
2020s
- 2020
Godzilla's Leading Ladies
Himself
2000s
- 2005
Arthouse Ultraman
Narrator
- 2004
Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy
Narrator (voice) · 26 episodes
Takada Wataru Teki
Self