Shiro Sano
Born: 1955-03-04 in Yamanashi, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Shiro Sano (佐野 史郎, Sano Shirō, born 4 March 1955) is a Japanese actor.
Filmography
2026
- Toki Sudeni Osushi!? as Tateishi Funao
- Ice Blood
- Living Corpse
2025
- The Ghost Writer's Wife as Eto Yasumune
- Good News as Sugimoto
- Dr. Ashura as Katsuji Fudo
- Two Seasons, Two Strangers as Uonuma
- 翔んだタックル大旋風
- AOSHO! Voices in Bloom
2024
- Happyend as Principal Nagai
- Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker as Jung Hak-sun
- Silence of the Sea as Cabinet Minister Kirigaya
- Brush of the God
- 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 －炎上－
- Shimane Multiverse Den
2023
- Between the White Key and the Black Key as Takumi
- Dear Kaita Ablaze as Satoshi
- Oshorin
- 疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
2022
- The Journalist as Hisashi Nakagawa
- My Dearest Self with Malice Aforethought as Masato Shirabishi
- Intimate Stranger
- 暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
2021
- How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family! as Takeshi Mizuguchi
- So Close! Detective Oshii 2 as Enoshita Chikara
- Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira
- Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie as Nobuo Asanuma
- Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction as Kazuo Kudo
2020
- 24 JAPAN as Genji Onitsuka
- Cursed in Love as Sōjurō Takatsuki
- Fukushima 50 as Prime Minister
- Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
- Secret of 10
- Nezura 1964 as Azuma
- Godzilla's Leading Ladies as Himself
- Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano as Mitsunori Yagawa
- Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
- Jubaku Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
2019
- Top League
- Tokyo 23-ku Onna as Hyuga
- An Artist of the Floating World as Dr. Saito
- We Are Little Zombies as Kamo Keiichiro
- So Close! Detective Oshii as Chikara Enoshita
- Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!! as Valma
- BOLT
- Black Lizard
2018
- Segodon as Ii Naosuke
- The Confidence Man JP
- SICK'S Jo no Shou as Yuichi Oshima
- The Habitation as Seiji Terauchi
- My Little Monster as Taizo Yoshida
- Spring Has Come as Shuji Kishikawa
- Harassment Game as Mizutani Itsuro
- Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
- The Great Buddha Arrival
- I Will Never Forgive
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special
- Roupeiro's Melancholy
2017
- Tatara Samurai as Tokugawa’s vassal
- Silver and Gold as Akio Nakajima
- Parks
- Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis
- Random Lives as Tadao
- 確証～警視庁捜査三課
2016
- 99.9 Criminal Lawyer as Masahiko Todo（藤堂 正彦）
- Ultraman Orb as Ryutaro Suganuma
- Whispers from a Crime Scene as Yuzo Shindo
- The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
- Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders as Michihiko Zaizen / Dr. Pac-Man
- Zen and Bones as Tatsuo Ishii
- Snow Woman
- 黒の斜面
- Yuriko's Picture Book
- Enishi: The Bride of Izumo as Yasuo Soda
- 仮釈放の条件 出口の裁判官 岬真斗香
2015
- The Last Cop as Endo Yuji
- Bikuu: The Movie as Zeshin
- Police Precinct Soul as Muneo Yamaoka
- I Alone
- Mr. Love Chemistry 2
2014
- MOZU as Kiyoharu Ikezawa
- Osoroshi
- Kinki as Konomi Mitsuru
- Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
- The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom as Tankuro Hinode
- Magnet Man
- The Locked Room Murders SP as Tetsuji Hiramatsu
- Housekeeper the Peeper as Taizan Kitamura
- Oh! Father as Satoru
- Eat and Sleep Together, Live Together as Machida Yuzo
- Piano in a Storeroom
- Phantom Limb
2013
- Kumokiri Nizaemon
- Public Affairs Office in the Sky as Koichi Takigawa
- Dandarin Rules as Shigeo Manabe
- The Intermission
- Miroku
- ミエリーノ柏木
- Trembling Cow
- Reunion
- The Farthest Galaxy
- Under the Nagasaki Sky as Morikazu Kadota
2012
- Rich Man, Poor Woman as Yamashita
- The Locked Room Murders as Hiramatsu Tetsuji
- Future Diary Another World as Toru
- Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie as Ashurada (voice) / Weeval
- The Millennial Rapture as Reina
- Doppleganger as Ujiie Kiyoshi
- レベル7 as 犬山刑事
- Rock'n'Roll Housewives
- 波の塔 as 이시이 테츠오
2011
- CSI: Crime Scene Talks as Takeo Sone
- My Way as Tatsuo's Father
- Wasao as Shigeo
- A Taste of Honey as Tadashi Kirishima
- Hayabusa as Kawabuchi
- HESOMORI -ヘソモリ-
2010
- SPEC ~ First Blood as Yuichi Oshima
- Left-Eye Detective as Yuya Fukuchi
- If Blessed
- Railways as Nobuo Ishikawa
- Kyukei no Koya
- Tenohira no memo as 折川孝之
2009
- Clouds Over the Hill as 陸羯（カツ）南
- The Triumphant Return of General Rouge as Yuji Kakiya
- Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess as Michio Nishino
- The Code as Detective 501
- Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster as Dr. Murakami
- Miyoko
2008
2007
- Wives Make the World Go Round
- 王様の心臓〜リア王より〜 as 黒田数男
- Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007 as Kagaya Genemon
2006
- Angels with Broken Wings as Maekawa Takuro
- Kuitan as Shuji Igarashi
- Waiting in the Dark as Akihiro's Boss
- Satomi Hakkenden as Daiki Makuwari
- Scum of Lawyers
- Vanished
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special as 半沢杜夫
- PS－羅生門－ 警視庁東都署
- A Drop of Dew: Shoji Ueda's Photographs that Woke the World ... (Director)
2005
- Detective Office 5: Another Story as Officer 501
- Ultraman Max as Narration
- The Great Yokai War as "Mysterious" Editor
- Detective Office 5 as 501
- The Suspect: Muroi Shinji as 窪園 行雄
- All About My Dog as Uncle
- The Sun as The chamberlain
- The Passed Scene as Kazuo Shimosaka
- Arthouse Ultraman as Narrator
- Onna Keiji Mizuki: Kyoto Rakusai Sho Monogatari as Okita Tomohito
2004
- Infection as Kiyoshi Akai
- Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy as Narrator (voice)
- Perfect Education 6
- Dollhouse as Chief Tasaki
- Vampire Host as Tenran
- Takada Wataru Teki as Self
- Oh! My Zombie Mermaid as Yamaji
2003
- Sky High
- 警視庁・樋口警部補 as 氏家譲
- The Negotiator as Lt. Ando
- Cop Festival: New Beginning
- Time Limit
- Kao as Osamu Minoda（箕田 修）
- 樋口警部補
- The Battling Angel as Ashida
- Dokushin 3
- An Autumn Afternoon as Koichi Hirayama
- Rika
- 朱夏～警视厅恐吓事件
2002
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
- しあわせのシッポ as 竹屋喜好
- Kewaishi
- Aiki
- Kamaitachi no Yoru
- Shangri-La as Kuwata
- Picaresque
2001
- Pokémon 4Ever as Vicious (voice)
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack as Haruki Kadokura
- The Princess Blade as Kidokoro
- 闇の脅迫者 江戸川乱歩の《陰獣》より
- Platonic Sex as Ishikawa
2000
- Trick
- Food Fight as Miyazono Kyosaku
- 安楽椅子探偵の聖夜
1999
- Godzilla 2000: Millennium as Prof. Shiro Miyasaka
- Kimi to Ita Mirai no Tame ni ~ I'll be back
- Karaoke
- Good News
1998
- LOVE&PEACE
- Frozen Summer as Oikawa Kenichi
1997
- Blue Bird as Hiromu Watanuki
- Cat's Eye as Chief
- The Defender as Wizard
- The Glass Shoe
1996
- Spring and Chaos as Kenji Miyazawa
- Love and Lies
- The Trap as Masaru Kanno
- Invisible Man
- グッドラック
- Target
1995
- Sharaku as Utamaro
- Sashow The Last Case
- Endless Waltz
- The Stairway to the Distant Past as Masaru Kanno
- Villain Field as Tadao
1994
- The Mystery of Rampo as Officer
- Hana no Ran as Ashikaga Yoshimi
- It's a Summer Vacation Everyday as Nariyuki Rinkaiji
- The Most Terrible Time in My Life as Masaru Kanno
- 長男の嫁
- Watashi no Unmei as Katagiri Shuntaro
- Rampo - Bewitching Women
1993
- The Secret as Yamada Mario
- Haruka, Nostalgia as Tutor
- The Brutal Insanity of Love as Tetsuro Muraki
- Double Kitchen
- Rainbow Bridge
- Gensen-Kan Inn as Yoshiharu Tsuge
- My Beloved Ultraseven as Tetsuo Kinjo
- The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
- 誰にも言えない
1992
- The Rocking Horsemen as Noritane Itoh
- Tokyo Elevator Girl
- The Room as The Dying Man
- Zutto Anata ga Sukidatta
- Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki as Kurahashi
- Sosuke Loses His Lover as Shinji Kitamura
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth as Takuji Hirata
- Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
- Can You Collect It?
- Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo
- Red Foliage as Shunji Muroi
- Swimming with Tears
- Garo Video 3: Hisago
1991
- Discontinuous Bombing Incident
- Shimanto River
- Seven Days War 2
- King's Playing With Fire
- TVO as Detective Takatsuka
1990
- Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
- Tales of the Bizarre
- Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars as Correspondent Morita
- Lady Battle Cop as Henry Ôba
- Ready to Shoot as Kikuchi
- The Legend of Zipang as Bunshichi
- Natsu no pēji as Kazuki
1989
- Lucky Sky Diamond as Katayama, a doctor
- Violent Cop as Yoshinari
- Four Days of Snow and Blood as Yasuhide Kurihara
- The Dancer as Takashi Tanimura
- Circus Boys as Hiroshi
- Festival of Dreams
1988
- Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis as Junichi Narumi
- Seven Days War as Yashiro
- Tomorrow as Shoji Nakagawa
1986
- To Sleep So as to Dream as Detective Uozuka