Shiro Sano
Born: 1955-03-04 in Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- S&X as Norio Toyohara
- Ultraman Teo as Takayuki Tsukahara
- Is It Too Late for Sushi? as Tateishi Funao
- Living Corpse as (voice)
- Ice Blood
2025
- The Ghost Writer's Wife as Eto Yasumune
- Good News as Sugimoto
- Dr. Ashura as Katsuji Fudo
- Two Seasons, Two Strangers as Uonuma
- The Flying Tackle: A Great Whirlwind as Daizo Sawada
- AOSHO! Voices in Bloom
2024
- Happyend as Principal Nagai
- Silence of the Sea as Cabinet Minister Kirigaya
- Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker as Jung Hak-sun
- 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
- 疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
- Oshorin
- Dear Kaita Ablaze as Satoshi
2022
- The Killer Inside as Masato Shirabishi
- The Journalist as Hisashi Nakagawa
- "Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
- Intimate Stranger
- 暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
2021
- Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira
- How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family! as Takeshi Mizuguchi
- So Close! Detective Oshii 2 as Enoshita Chikara
- Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie as Nobuo Asanuma
- Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction as Kazuo Kudo
2020
- 24 JAPAN as Genji Onitsuka
- Fukushima 50 as Prime Minister
- Cursed in Love as Sōjurō Takatsuki
- Secret of 10 as Yutaka Naganuma
- Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
- Godzilla's Leading Ladies as Himself
- Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
- Jubaku Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
- Nezura 1964 as Azuma
- Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano as Mitsunori Yagawa
2019
- We Are Little Zombies as Kamo Keiichiro
- Tokyo 23-ku Onna as Hyuga
- Top League
- So Close! Detective Oshii as Chikara Enoshita
- Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!! as Valma
- An Artist of the Floating World as Dr. Saito
- BOLT
- Black Lizard
2018
- Segodon as Ii Naosuke
- The Confidence Man JP as Tsutomu Tawaraya
- SICK'S Jo no Shou as Yuichi Oshima
- Harassment Game as Mizutani Itsuro
- The Habitation as Seiji Terauchi
- Spring Has Come as Shuji Kishikawa
- My Little Monster as Taizo Yoshida
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special
- I Will Never Forgive
- Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
- The Great Buddha Arrival
- Roupeiro's Melancholy
2017
- Silver and Gold as Akio Nakajima
- Parks
- Tatara Samurai as Tokugawa’s vassal
- 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
- Snow Woman
- Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders as Michihiko Zaizen / Dr. Pac-Man
- Enishi: The Bride of Izumo as Yasuo Soda
- The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
- 黒の斜面
- Yuriko's Picture Book
- Zen and Bones as Tatsuo Ishii
- 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
- Mr. Love Chemistry 2
- Police Precinct Soul as Muneo Yamaoka
- I Alone
2014
- MOZU as Kiyoharu Ikezawa
- Osoroshi
- The Locked Room Murders SP as Tetsuji Hiramatsu
- Tokusou as Norio Shinohara
- Housekeeper the Peeper as Taizan Kitamura
- Kinki as Konomi Mitsuru
- Eat and Sleep Together, Live Together as Machida Yuzo
- Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
- Piano in a Storeroom
- The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom as Tankuro Hinode
- Oh! Father as Satoru
- Magnet Man
- Phantom Limb
2013
- Kumokiri Nizaemon
- Public Affairs Office in the Sky as Koichi Takigawa
- Trembling Cow
- Dandarin Rules as Shigeo Manabe
- ミエリーノ柏木
- The Farthest Galaxy
- Under the Nagasaki Sky as Morikazu Kadota
- The Intermission
- Reunion
- Miroku
2012
- The Locked Room Murders as Hiramatsu Tetsuji
- Rich Man, Poor Woman as Yamashita
- Future Diary Another World as Toru
- Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie as Ashurada (voice) / Weeval
- Doppleganger as Ujiie Kiyoshi
- 波の塔 as 이시이 테츠오
- Rock'n'Roll Housewives
- レベル7 as 犬山刑事
- The Millennial Rapture as Reina
2011
- CSI: Crime Scene Talks as Takeo Sone
- My Way as Tatsuo's Father
- A Taste of Honey as Tadashi Kirishima
- Dōki
- Wasao as Shigeo
- Hayabusa as Kawabuchi
- HESOMORI -ヘソモリ-
2010
- SPEC ~ First Blood as Yuichi Oshima
- Left-Eye Detective as Yuya Fukuchi
- Kyukei no Koya
- Railways as Nobuo Ishikawa
- If Blessed
- Tenohira no memo as 折川孝之
2009
- Clouds Over the Hill as 陸羯（カツ）南
- The Code as Detective 501
- Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster as Dr. Murakami
- Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess as Michio Nishino
- The Triumphant Return of General Rouge as Yuji Kakiya
- Miyoko
2008
- 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End as Yan-bô
- The Glorious Team Batista as Yuji Kakiya
- Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects as Himeself
- Kitaro and the Millennium Curse as Jakotsu Babaa
- Persona
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special
- The Yagyu Conspiracy
- The Taste of Fish
- Life Improvement Club as Ueda
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
- Scum of Lawyers
- PS－羅生門－ 警視庁東都署
- Satomi Hakkenden as Daiki Makuwari
- Waiting in the Dark as Akihiro's Boss
- Vanished
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special as 半沢杜夫
- A Drop of Dew: Shoji Ueda's Photographs that Woke the World ... (Director)
2005
- Ultraman Max as Narration
- Detective Office 5: Another Story as Officer 501
- Onna Keiji Mizuki: Kyoto Rakusai Sho Monogatari as Okita Tomohito
- The Great Yokai War as "Mysterious" Editor
- The Suspect: Muroi Shinji as 窪園 行雄
- The Sun as The chamberlain
- All About My Dog as Uncle
- Detective Office 5 as 501
- Arthouse Ultraman as Narrator
- The Passed Scene as Kazuo Shimosaka
2004
- Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy as Narrator (voice)
- Perfect Education 6
- Infection as Kiyoshi Akai
- Dollhouse as Chief Tasaki
- Vampire Host as Tenran
- Oh! My Zombie Mermaid as Yamaji
- Takada Wataru Teki as Self
2003
- Sky High
- Kao as Osamu Minoda（箕田 修）
- 警視庁・樋口警部補 as 氏家譲
- Dokushin 3
- 樋口警部補
- An Autumn Afternoon as Koichi Hirayama
- The Negotiator as Lt. Ando
- The Battling Angel as Ashida
- Cop Festival: New Beginning
- Time Limit
- 朱夏～警视厅恐吓事件
- Rika
2002
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
- Aiki
- しあわせのシッポ as 竹屋喜好
- Kewaishi
- Shangri-La as Kuwata
- Picaresque
- Kamaitachi no Yoru
2001
- Pokémon 4Ever as Vicious (voice)
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack as Haruki Kadokura
- Platonic Sex as Ishikawa
- The Princess Blade as Kidokoro
- 闇の脅迫者 江戸川乱歩の《陰獣》より
2000
- Food Fight as Miyazono Kyosaku
- Trick
- The Armchair Detective's Christmas Eve
1999
- Godzilla 2000: Millennium as Prof. Shiro Miyasaka
- Kimi to Ita Mirai no Tame ni ~ I'll be back
- Good News
- Karaoke
1998
- Frozen Summer as Oikawa Kenichi
- LOVE&PEACE
1997
- Blue Bird as Hiromu Watanuki
- Cat's Eye as Chief
- The Glass Shoe
- The Defender as Wizard
1996
- Invisible Man
- Love and Lies
- グッドラック
- The Trap as Masaru Kanno
- Spring and Chaos as Kenji Miyazawa
- Target
1995
- Sashow The Last Case
- Sharaku as Utamaro
- Snow falls on a southern island
- The Stairway to the Distant Past as Masaru Kanno
- Endless Waltz
- Burai-Heiya as Tadao
1994
- Hana no Ran as Ashikaga Yoshimi
- 長男の嫁
- Watashi no Unmei as Katagiri Shuntaro
- The Mystery of Rampo as Officer
- The Most Terrible Time in My Life as Masaru Kanno
- Rampo - Bewitching Women
- It's a Summer Vacation Everyday as Nariyuki Rinkaiji
1993
- The Secret as Yamada Mario
- Double Kitchen
- The Room as The Dying Man
- 誰にも言えない
- Haruka, Nostalgia as Tutor
- Rainbow Bridge
- The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
- My Beloved Ultraseven as Tetsuo Kinjo
- The Brutal Insanity of Love as Tetsuro Muraki
- Gensen-Kan Inn as Yoshiharu Tsuge
1992
- Tokyo Elevator Girl
- Zutto Anata ga Sukidatta
- The Rocking Horsemen as Noritane Itoh
- Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki as Kurahashi
- Red Foliage as Shunji Muroi
- Sosuke Loses His Lover as Shinji Kitamura
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth as Takuji Hirata
- Garo Video 3: Hisago
- Can You Collect It?
- Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
- Swimming with Tears
- Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo
1991
- Seven Days War 2
- Discontinuous Bombing Incident
- Shimanto River
- TVO as Detective Takatsuka
- King's Playing With Fire
1990
- Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
- Tales of the Bizarre
- Lady Battle Cop as Henry Ohba
- Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars as Correspondent Morita
- Ready to Shoot as Kikuchi
- Natsu no pēji as Kazuki
- The Legend of Zipang as Bunshichi
1989
- Lucky Sky Diamond as Katayama, a doctor
- Violent Cop as Yoshinari
- Four Days of Snow and Blood as Yasuhide Kurihara
- Circus Boys as Hiroshi
- The Dancer as Takashi Tanimura
- Festival of Dreams
1988
- Seven Days War as Yashiro
- Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis as Junichi Narumi
- Tomorrow as Shoji Nakagawa
1986
- To Sleep So as to Dream as Detective Uozuka