Shiro Sano

ActorDirectorWriter Mar 4 (age 71) Yamanashi, Japan 1985–2026 (41 year career)

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Biography

Shiro Sano (佐野史郎, Sano Shirō, born 4 March 1955) is a Japanese actor.

Known For

Film

My Way

Tatsuo's Father

Film

Violent Cop

Yoshinari

Film

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

Haruki Kadokura

Film

Pokémon 4Ever

Vicious (voice)

Film

Godzilla 2000: Millennium

Prof. Shiro Miyasaka

Film

Fukushima 50

Prime Minister

Film

My Little Monster

Taizou Yoshida

Film

20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

Yan-bô

Filmography

Acting (266)

Movies (172)

Ice Blood

2026 Upcoming

Jul 3

Good News

2025

as Sugimoto

7.0

Two Seasons, Two Strangers

2025

as Uonuma

8.0

AOSHO! Voices in Bloom

2025

翔んだタックル大旋風

2025

Shimane Multiverse Den

2024

Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker

as Jung Hak-sun

Happyend

as Principal Nagai

警視庁強行犯係樋口顕－炎上－

Silence of the Sea

as Cabinet Minister Kirigaya

Brush of the God

Oshorin

疑念警視庁強行犯係樋口顕

Dear Kaita Ablaze

as Satoshi

Between the White Key and the Black Key

as Takumi

暁鐘警視庁強行犯係樋口顕

Intimate Stranger

Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie

2021

as Nobuo Asanuma

7.2

Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction

2021

as Kazuo Kudo

7.5

Godzilla's Leading Ladies

as Himself

Fukushima 50

as Prime Minister

Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman

2020

7.0

Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano

2020

as Mitsunori Yagawa

Nezura 1964

2020

as Azuma

6.0

An Artist of the Floating World

2019

as Dr. Saito

Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!!

2019

as Valma

We Are Little Zombies

as Kamo Keiichiro

Black Lizard

BOLT

Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu

2018

Roupeiro's Melancholy

2018

My Little Monster

2018

as Taizou Yoshida

7.5

The Great Buddha Arrival

2018

6.0

Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special

I Will Never Forgive

確証～警視庁捜査三課

Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis

Tatara Samurai

as Tokugawa’s vassal

Parks

Random Lives

as Tadao

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

2016

6.3

黒の斜面

2016

Yuriko's Picture Book

2016

Zen and Bones

2016

as Tatsuo Ishii

Snow Woman

2016

6.2

Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders

2016

as Michihiko Zaizen / Dr. Pac-Man

7.5

Enishi: The Bride of Izumo

as Yasuo Soda

I Alone

Police Precinct Soul

as Muneo Yamaoka

Bikuu: The Movie

2015

as Zeshin

7.4

Mr. Love Chemistry 2

2015

The Locked Room Murders SP

as Tetsuji Hiramatsu

Kinki

as Konomi Mitsuru

Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel

Oh! Father

as Satoru

Housekeeper the Peeper

2014

as Taizan Kitamura

7.0

Magnet Man

2014

The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom

as Tankuro Hinode

Phantom Limb

Piano in a Storeroom

Under the Nagasaki Sky

2013

as Morikazu kadota

Miroku

The Intermission

Reunion

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie

2012

as Ashurada (voice) / Weeval

6.8

The Millennial Rapture

2012

as Reina

4.0

Rock'n'Roll Housewives

2012

レベル7

2012

as 犬山刑事

波の塔

2012

as 이시이 테츠오

My Way

as Tatsuo's Father

Wasao

as Shigeo

Hayabusa

as Kawabuchi

HESOMORI -ヘソモリ-

Railways

as Nobuo Ishikawa

Tenohira no memo

as 折川孝之

If Blessed

2010

Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess

2009

as Michio Nishino

6.3

The Triumphant Return of General Rouge

2009

as Yuji Kakiya

6.7

Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster

as Dr. Murakami

The Code

as Detective 501

Miyoko

20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

2008

as Yan-bô

6.7

The Glorious Team Batista

as Yuji Kakiya

The Taste of Fish

The Yagyu Conspiracy

Life Improvement Club

2008

as Ueda

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

as Himeself

Persona

Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special

2008

Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007

as Kagaya Genemon

Waiting in the Dark

as Akihiro's Boss

Vanished

Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special

2006

as 半沢杜夫

All About My Dog

2005

as Uncle

6.2

Detective Office 5

2005

as 501

The Passed Scene

2005

as Kazuo Shimosaka

The Great Yokai War

2005

as "Mysterious" Editor

6.3

The Sun

2005

as The chamberlain

6.7

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

2005

as 窪園行雄

6.3

Arthouse Ultraman

2005

as Narrator

Infection

2004

as Kiyoshi Akai

6.3

Takada Wataru Teki

2004

as Self

Oh! My Zombie Mermaid

as Yamaji

Perfect Education 6

Cop Festival: New Beginning

Time Limit

The Negotiator

as Lt. Ando

The Battling Angel

as Ashida

An Autumn Afternoon

as Koichi Hirayama

朱夏～警视厅恐吓事件

Rika

Shangri-La

as Kuwata

Aiki

Kewaishi

Kamaitachi no Yoru

Picaresque

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

as Haruki Kadokura

Pokémon 4Ever

as Vicious (voice)

The Princess Blade

as Kidokoro

安楽椅子探偵の聖夜

Godzilla 2000: Millennium

1999

as Prof. Shiro Miyasaka

Karaoke

Cat's Eye

as Chief

The Defender

as Wizard

The Trap

as Masaru Kanno

Spring and Chaos

as Kenji Miyazawa

Target

The Stairway to the Distant Past

1995

as Masaru Kanno

7.0

Villain Field

1995

as Tadao

Endless Waltz

Sharaku

as Utamaro

The Mystery of Rampo

as Officer

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

1994

as Masaru Kanno

7.3

It's a Summer Vacation Everyday

1994

as Nariyuki Rinkaiji

Rampo - Bewitching Women

1994

The Brutal Insanity of Love

as Tetsuro Muraki

Gensen-Kan Inn

as Yoshiharu Tsuge

Haruka, Nostalgia

as Tutor

My Beloved Ultraseven

1993

as Tetsuo Kinjo

The Anthropology of a Fight Scene

1993

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

1992

6.0

Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo

Can You Collect It?

The Room

as The Dying Man

Sosuke Loses His Lover

as Shinji Kitamura

Swimming with Tears

The Rocking Horsemen

as Noritane Itoh

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

1992

as Takuji Hirata

6.2

Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki

1992

as Kurahashi

4.8

Red Foliage

1992

as Shunji Muroi

Garo Video 3: Hisago

1992

King's Playing With Fire

1991

Discontinuous Bombing Incident

Shimanto River

Seven Days War 2

TVO

as Detective Takatsuka

5.5

Ready to Shoot

1990

as Kikuchi

2.0

Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars

1990

as Correspondent Morita

7.5

Natsu no pēji

1990

as Kazuki

Lady Battle Cop

as Henry Ôba

The Legend of Zipang

as Bunshichi

Lucky Sky Diamond

as Katayama, a doctor

Violent Cop

as Yoshinari

Circus Boys

as Hiroshi

Festival of Dreams

Four Days of Snow and Blood

as Yasuhide Kurihara

The Dancer

as Takashi Tanimura

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

as Junichi Narumi

Seven Days War

as Yashiro

Tomorrow

as Shoji Nakagawa

The Heartbreak Yakuza

1987

4.7

To Sleep So as to Dream

1986

as Detective Uozuka

6.4

Television (94)

Toki Sudeni Osushi!?

2026 Upcoming

as Tateishi Funao

Apr 7

The Ghost Writer's Wife

as Eto Yasumune

Dr. Ashura

as Katsuji Fudo

The Journalist

as Hisashi Nakagawa

My Dearest Self with Malice Aforethought

2022

as Masato Shirabishi

5.3

How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!

2021

as Takeshi Mizuguchi

5.7

Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira

2021

10.0

So Close! Detective Oshii 2

as Enoshita Chikara

Cursed in Love

as Sōjurō Takatsuki

24 JAPAN

as Genji Onitsuka

Secret of 10

Jubaku Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira

2020

Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira

2020

Top League

2019

8.0

So Close! Detective Oshii

as Chikara Enoshita

Tokyo 23-ku Onna

as Hyuga

The Confidence Man JP

2018

7.3

The Confidence Man JP

as Tsutomu Tawaraya

Segodon

as Ii Naosuke

SICK'S Jo no Shou

as Yuichi Oshima

Harassment Game

as Mizutani Itsuro

The Habitation

as Seiji Terauchi

Spring Has Come

as Shuji Kishikawa

Silver and Gold

as Akio Nakajima

99.9 Criminal Lawyer

as Masahiko Todo（藤堂正彦）

6.8

Ultraman Orb

2016

as Ryutaro Suganuma

7.7

Whispers from a Crime Scene

as Yuzo Shindo

仮釈放の条件出口の裁判官岬真斗香

The Last Cop

as Endo Yuji

MOZU

as Kiyoharu Ikezawa

Osoroshi

Eat and Sleep Together, Live Together

2014

as Machida Yuzo

Kumokiri Nizaemon

2013

9.0

Public Affairs Office in the Sky

as Koichi Takigawa

Trembling Cow

Dandarin Rules

as Shigeo Manabe

The Farthest Galaxy

ミエリーノ柏木

Rich Man, Poor Woman

as Yamashita

The Locked Room Murders

2012

as Hiramatsu Tetsuji

7.3

Future Diary Another World

as Toru

Doppleganger

as Ujiie Kiyoshi

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

as Takeo Sone

A Taste of Honey

as Tadashi Kirishima

SPEC ~ First Blood

as Yuichi Oshima

Left-Eye Detective

as Yuya Fukuchi

Kyukei no Koya

Clouds Over the Hill

as 陸羯（カツ）南

Wives Make the World Go Round

2007

王様の心臓〜リア王より〜

2007

as 黒田数男

Kuitan

2006

as Shuji Igarashi

7.0

Angels with Broken Wings

as Maekawa Takuro

Scum of Lawyers

Satomi Hakkenden

as Daiki Makuwari

PS－羅生門－　警視庁東都署

Detective Office 5: Another Story

2005

Detective Office 5: Another Story

2005

as Officer 501

Ultraman Max

2005

as Narration

9.2

Onna Keiji Mizuki: Kyoto Rakusai Sho Monogatari

2005

as Okita Tomohito

Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy

as Narrator (voice)

Vampire Host

as Tenran

Dollhouse

as Chief Tasaki

Sky High

Kao

as Osamu Minoda（箕田修）

Dokushin 3

警視庁・樋口警部補

as 氏家譲

樋口警部補

2003

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

2002

7.4

しあわせのシッポ

2002

as 竹屋喜好

Platonic Sex

as Ishikawa

闇の脅迫者　江戸川乱歩の《陰獣》より

Trick

Food Fight

as Miyazono Kyosaku

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

Good News

LOVE&PEACE

Frozen Summer

as Oikawa Kenichi

Blue Bird

as Hiromu Watanuki

The Glass Shoe

Invisible Man

グッドラック

Love and Lies

Sashow The Last Case

Hana no Ran

as Ashikaga Yoshimi

Watashi no Unmei

1994

as Katagiri Shuntaro

長男の嫁

誰にも言えない

Double Kitchen

The Secret

as Yamada Mario

Tokyo Elevator Girl

Zutto Anata ga Sukidatta

Tales of the Bizarre

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

1990

9.5

Female Detective Yuko Kasumi

1985

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

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

2006

Director

Karaoke

1999

Director

Karaoke

1999

Story