
Shiro Sano
Born March 4, 1955 · Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
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.
Movies

Godzilla: Final Wars

My Way

Godzilla 2000: Millennium

Good News

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

Pokémon 4Ever

Happyend

Violent Cop

The Great Yokai War

20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

Fukushima 50

Two Seasons, Two Strangers

My Little Monster

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Lady Battle Cop

Cat's Eye

Infection

Kinki

We Are Little Zombies

Garo Video 3: Hisago

The Princess Blade

Seven Days War

Sharaku

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

Lucky Sky Diamond

The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom

Wasao

The Mystery of Rampo

Stolen Identity: Final Hacking Game

The Triumphant Return of General Rouge

Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki

Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars

Waiting in the Dark

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie

Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie

The Sun

The Stairway to the Distant Past

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

Bikuu: The Movie

Detective Office 5

The Locked Room Murders SP

The Rocking Horsemen

Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess

Haruka, Nostalgia

Snow Woman

Endless Waltz

Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman

Enishi: The Bride of Izumo

Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special

An Artist of the Floating World

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

Perfect Education 6

The Code

Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel

All About My Dog

Parks

Tatara Samurai

The Glorious Team Batista

The Heartbreak Yakuza

Kitaro and the Millennium Curse

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

To Sleep So as to Dream

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

Silence of the Sea

Aiki

The Yagyu Conspiracy

Living Corpse

I Will Never Forgive

Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction

The Millennial Rapture

The Intermission

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

The Taste of Fish

Hayabusa

Spring and Chaos

Kewaishi

Cop Festival: New Beginning

The Legend of Zipang

Reunion

Oh! Father

"Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira

Godzilla's Leading Ladies

Target
TV Shows

Ultraman Max

Segodon

The Ghost Writer's Wife

Kumokiri Nizaemon

Trick

99.9 Criminal Lawyer

Ultraman Orb

SPEC ~ First Blood

Ultraman Teo

Detective Office 5: Another Story

Clouds Over the Hill

Future Diary Another World

S&X

SICK'S Jo no Shou

24 JAPAN

Rich Man, Poor Woman

Sky High

The Confidence Man JP

Hana no Ran

Angels with Broken Wings

Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy

The Locked Room Murders

Public Affairs Office in the Sky

MOZU

Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira

Silver and Gold

The Last Cop

Dr. Ashura

Cursed in Love

The Journalist

Kuitan

The Killer Inside

Harassment Game

Food Fight

Whispers from a Crime Scene

Blue Bird

長男の嫁

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

Kao

Onna Keiji Mizuki: Kyoto Rakusai Sho Monogatari

How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!

A Taste of Honey

Scum of Lawyers

Tokyo 23-ku Onna

Dandarin Rules

Left-Eye Detective

Watashi no Unmei

Sashow The Last Case

Tokyo Elevator Girl

Top League

Vampire Host

Trembling Cow

Double Kitchen

Secret of 10

Is It Too Late for Sushi?

Zutto Anata ga Sukidatta

Wives Make the World Go Round

Satomi Hakkenden

Dollhouse

The Secret

Doppleganger

Invisible Man

Spring Has Come

Good News

Osoroshi

Female Detective Yuko Kasumi

So Close! Detective Oshii 2

So Close! Detective Oshii

The Farthest Galaxy

The Habitation

Kyukei no Koya

Frozen Summer

誰にも言えない

Tokusou

Eat and Sleep Together, Live Together

PS-羅生門- 警視庁東都署

Platonic Sex

ミエリーノ柏木

しあわせのシッポ

王様の心臓〜リア王より〜

Unreleased
逆賊の幕臣

Love and Lies

Dōki

Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
More Movies

If Blessed

Persona

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

Blood on Snow

The Negotiator

Random Lives

The Room

Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007

Mr. Love Chemistry 2

The Trap

The Passed Scene

黒の斜面

Sosuke Loses His Lover

Vanished

Tomorrow

Rainbow Bridge

Railways

Housekeeper the Peeper

Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu

Oh! My Zombie Mermaid

Gensen-Kan Inn

It's a Summer Vacation Everyday

Festival of Dreams

Brush of the God

Kamaitachi no Yoru

BOLT

Rock'n'Roll Housewives

Ready to Shoot

Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster

The Dancer

Life Improvement Club

Miyoko

Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis

The Great Buddha Arrival

確証~警視庁捜査三課

Magnet Man

Shimanto River

Circus Boys

波の塔

Red Foliage

Discontinuous Bombing Incident

Under the Nagasaki Sky

Intimate Stranger

Zen and Bones

Time Limit

Burai-Heiya

Piano in a Storeroom

Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special

Karaoke

The Brutal Insanity of Love

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

Snow falls on a southern island

Between the White Key and the Black Key

Black Lizard

疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕

Oshorin

Phantom Limb

Arthouse Ultraman

Police Precinct Soul

The Flying Tackle: A Great Whirlwind

The Defender

Rika

King's Playing With Fire

Roupeiro's Melancholy

Nezura 1964

Shangri-La

The Anthropology of a Fight Scene

Dear Kaita Ablaze

Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano

暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕

Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special

Seven Days War 2

Miroku

I Alone

TVO

My Beloved Ultraseven

Yuriko's Picture Book

Can You Collect It?

Natsu no pēji

AOSHO! Voices in Bloom

朱夏~警视厅恐吓事件

Rampo - Bewitching Women

Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo

Shimane Multiverse Den

Picaresque

An Autumn Afternoon

Takada Wataru Teki

The Armchair Detective's Christmas Eve




