Shiro Sano
Acting
1955-03-04 · 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.
Filmography
S&X
2026 · Series
TheatersLiving Corpse
2026 · Movie
Ultraman Teo
2026 · Series
Ice Blood
2026 · Movie
Is It Too Late for Sushi?
2026 · Series
The Flying Tackle: A Great Whirlwind
2025 · Movie
Two Seasons, Two Strangers
2025 · Movie
The Ghost Writer's Wife
2025 · Series
Good News
2025 · Movie
AOSHO! Voices in Bloom
2025 · Movie
Dr. Ashura
2025 · Series
Silence of the Sea
2024 · Movie
Stolen Identity: Final Hacking Game
2024 · Movie
Happyend
2024 · Movie
Brush of the God
2024 · Movie
警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 －炎上－
2024 · Movie
Shimane Multiverse Den
2024 · Movie
Dear Kaita Ablaze
2023 · Movie
Oshorin
2023 · Movie
Between the White Key and the Black Key
2023 · Movie
疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
2023 · Movie
The Killer Inside
2022 · Series
暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
2022 · Movie
Intimate Stranger
2022 · Movie
"Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
2022 · Movie
The Journalist
2022 · Series
How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!
2021 · Series
Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
2021 · Movie
Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
2021 · Movie
So Close! Detective Oshii 2
2021 · Series
Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira
2021 · Series
Nezura 1964
2020 · Movie
Godzilla's Leading Ladies
2020 · Movie
Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
2020 · Series
Jubaku Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
2020 · Series
24 JAPAN
2020 · Series
Cursed in Love
2020 · Series
Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano
2020 · Movie
Fukushima 50
2020 · Movie
Secret of 10
2020 · Series
Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
2020 · Movie
Black Lizard
2019 · Movie
Top League
2019 · Series
So Close! Detective Oshii
2019 · Series
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!!
2019 · Movie
BOLT
2019 · Movie
Tokyo 23-ku Onna
2019 · Series
An Artist of the Floating World
2019 · Movie
We Are Little Zombies
2019 · Movie
The Great Buddha Arrival
2018 · Movie
Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special
2018 · Movie
Harassment Game
2018 · Series
Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
2018 · Movie
The Habitation
2018 · Series
My Little Monster
2018 · Movie
The Confidence Man JP
2018 · Series
I Will Never Forgive
2018 · Movie
SICK'S Jo no Shou
2018 · Series
Spring Has Come
2018 · Series
Roupeiro's Melancholy
2018 · Movie
Segodon
2018 · Series
確証～警視庁捜査三課
2017 · Movie
Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis
2017 · Movie
Tatara Samurai
2017 · Movie
Parks
2017 · Movie
Random Lives
2017 · Movie
Silver and Gold
2017 · Series
Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders
2016 · Movie
Snow Woman
2016 · Movie
Zen and Bones
2016 · Movie
Yuriko's Picture Book
2016 · Movie
Ultraman Orb
2016 · Series
99.9 Criminal Lawyer
2016 · Series
仮釈放の条件 出口の裁判官 岬真斗香
2016 · Series
The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
2016 · Movie
Enishi: The Bride of Izumo
2016 · Movie
黒の斜面
2016 · Movie
Whispers from a Crime Scene
2016 · Series
Bikuu: The Movie
2015 · Movie
Police Precinct Soul
2015 · Movie
Mr. Love Chemistry 2
2015 · Movie
The Last Cop
2015 · Series
I Alone
2015 · Movie
Kinki
2014 · Movie
Phantom Limb
2014 · Movie
Osoroshi
2014 · Series
Magnet Man
2014 · Movie
Eat and Sleep Together, Live Together
2014 · Series
Oh! Father
2014 · Movie
Tokusou
2014 · Series
MOZU
2014 · Series
The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom
2014 · Movie
Housekeeper the Peeper
2014 · Movie
Piano in a Storeroom
2014 · Movie
Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
2014 · Movie
The Locked Room Murders SP
2014 · Movie
Miroku
2013 · Movie
Dandarin Rules
2013 · Series
Under the Nagasaki Sky
2013 · Movie
Trembling Cow
2013 · Series
Public Affairs Office in the Sky
2013 · Series
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013 · Series
Reunion
2013 · Movie
The Intermission
2013 · Movie
The Farthest Galaxy
2013 · Series
ミエリーノ柏木
2013 · Series
The Millennial Rapture
2012 · Movie
Rich Man, Poor Woman
2012 · Series
波の塔
2012 · Movie
レベル7
2012 · Movie
Future Diary Another World
2012 · Series
The Locked Room Murders
2012 · Series
Rock'n'Roll Housewives
2012 · Movie
Doppleganger
2012 · Series
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie
2012 · Movie
My Way
2011 · Movie
A Taste of Honey
2011 · Series
Hayabusa
2011 · Movie
HESOMORI -ヘソモリ-
2011 · Movie
CSI: Crime Scene Talks
2011 · Series
Wasao
2011 · Movie
Dōki
2011 · Series
Kyukei no Koya
2010 · Series
Tenohira no memo
2010 · Movie
SPEC ~ First Blood
2010 · Series
Railways
2010 · Movie
Left-Eye Detective
2010 · Series
If Blessed
2010 · Movie
Clouds Over the Hill
2009 · Series
Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess
2009 · Movie
Miyoko
2009 · Movie
The Code
2009 · Movie
The Triumphant Return of General Rouge
2009 · Movie
Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster
2009 · Movie
Life Improvement Club
2008 · Movie
The Yagyu Conspiracy
2008 · Movie
Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special
2008 · Movie
20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
2008 · Movie
Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
2008 · Movie
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
2008 · Movie
The Taste of Fish
2008 · Movie
The Glorious Team Batista
2008 · Movie
Persona
2008 · Movie
Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007
2007 · Movie
Wives Make the World Go Round
2007 · Series
王様の心臓〜リア王より〜
2007 · Series
Waiting in the Dark
2006 · Movie
Vanished
2006 · Movie
A Drop of Dew: Shoji Ueda's Photographs that Woke the World
2006 · Movie
PS－羅生門－ 警視庁東都署
2006 · Series
Scum of Lawyers
2006 · Series
Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special
2006 · Movie
Angels with Broken Wings
2006 · Series
Kuitan
2006 · Series
Satomi Hakkenden
2006 · Series
Detective Office 5
2005 · Movie
Onna Keiji Mizuki: Kyoto Rakusai Sho Monogatari
2005 · Series
Detective Office 5: Another Story
2005 · Series
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005 · Movie
The Great Yokai War
2005 · Movie
Ultraman Max
2005 · Series
Arthouse Ultraman
2005 · Movie
The Passed Scene
2005 · Movie
All About My Dog
2005 · Movie
The Sun
2005 · Movie
Infection
2004 · Movie
Perfect Education 6
2004 · Movie
Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy
2004 · Series
Vampire Host
2004 · Series
Takada Wataru Teki
2004 · Movie
Dollhouse
2004 · Series
Oh! My Zombie Mermaid
2004 · Movie
Dokushin 3
2003 · Series
The Battling Angel
2003 · Movie
警視庁・樋口警部補
2003 · Series
The Negotiator
2003 · Movie
樋口警部補
2003 · Series
朱夏～警视厅恐吓事件
2003 · Movie
Time Limit
2003 · Movie
Rika
2003 · Movie
Cop Festival: New Beginning
2003 · Movie
Kao
2003 · Series
Sky High
2003 · Series
An Autumn Afternoon
2003 · Movie
Aiki
2002 · Movie
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002 · Series
Shangri-La
2002 · Movie
Picaresque
2002 · Movie
Kamaitachi no Yoru
2002 · Movie
しあわせのシッポ
2002 · Series
Kewaishi
2002 · Movie
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
2001 · Movie
The Princess Blade
2001 · Movie
Platonic Sex
2001 · Series
Pokémon 4Ever
2001 · Movie
闇の脅迫者 江戸川乱歩の《陰獣》より
2001 · Series
The Armchair Detective's Christmas Eve
2000 · Movie
Trick
2000 · Series
Food Fight
2000 · Series
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
1999 · Movie
Karaoke
1999 · Movie
Good News
1999 · Series
Kimi to Ita Mirai no Tame ni ~ I'll be back
1999 · Series
Frozen Summer
1998 · Series
LOVE&PEACE
1998 · Series
Blue Bird
1997 · Series
Cat's Eye
1997 · Movie
The Glass Shoe
1997 · Series
The Defender
1997 · Movie
Spring and Chaos
1996 · Movie
Love and Lies
1996 · Series
グッドラック
1996 · Series
Target
1996 · Movie
The Trap
1996 · Movie
Invisible Man
1996 · Series
Snow falls on a southern island
1995 · Movie
Endless Waltz
1995 · Movie
Sashow The Last Case
1995 · Series
Sharaku
1995 · Movie
Burai-Heiya
1995 · Movie
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995 · Movie
Watashi no Unmei
1994 · Series
The Mystery of Rampo
1994 · Movie
It's a Summer Vacation Everyday
1994 · Movie
長男の嫁
1994 · Series
Hana no Ran
1994 · Series
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
1994 · Movie
Rampo - Bewitching Women
1994 · Movie
The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
1993 · Movie
The Room
1993 · Movie
Rainbow Bridge
1993 · Movie
Gensen-Kan Inn
1993 · Movie
The Secret
1993 · Series
誰にも言えない
1993 · Series
The Brutal Insanity of Love
1993 · Movie
Double Kitchen
1993 · Series
Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 · Movie
My Beloved Ultraseven
1993 · Movie
Garo Video 3: Hisago
1992 · Movie
The Rocking Horsemen
1992 · Movie
Can You Collect It?
1992 · Movie
Sosuke Loses His Lover
1992 · Movie
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
1992 · Movie
Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki
1992 · Movie
Zutto Anata ga Sukidatta
1992 · Series
Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo
1992 · Movie
Red Foliage
1992 · Movie
Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
1992 · Movie
Swimming with Tears
1992 · Movie
Tokyo Elevator Girl
1992 · Series
Shimanto River
1991 · Movie
TVO
1991 · Movie
King's Playing With Fire
1991 · Movie
Seven Days War 2
1991 · Movie
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
1991 · Movie
Ready to Shoot
1990 · Movie
Lady Battle Cop
1990 · Movie
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990 · Series
Tales of the Bizarre
1990 · Series
Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
1990 · Movie
Natsu no pēji
1990 · Movie
The Legend of Zipang
1990 · Movie
Circus Boys
1989 · Movie
The Dancer
1989 · Movie
Violent Cop
1989 · Movie
Festival of Dreams
1989 · Movie
Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989 · Movie
Lucky Sky Diamond
1989 · Movie
Tomorrow
1988 · Movie
Seven Days War
1988 · Movie
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988 · Movie
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987 · Movie
To Sleep So as to Dream
1986 · Movie
Female Detective Yuko Kasumi
1985 · Series