Shiro Sano

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Acting

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

• Living Corpse (2026)
• Ice Blood (2026)
• The Flying Tackle: A Great Whirlwind (2025)
• Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025)
• AOSHO! Voices in Bloom (2025)
• Good News (2025)
• Silence of the Sea (2024)
• Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker (2024)
• Happyend (2024)
• Brush of the God (2024)
• 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 －炎上－ (2024)
• Shimane Multiverse Den (2024)
• Dear Kaita Ablaze (2023)
• Oshorin (2023)
• Between the White Key and the Black Key (2023)
• 疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 (2023)
• 暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 (2022)
• Intimate Stranger (2022)
• "Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira (2022)
• Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction (2021)
• Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie (2021)
• Godzilla's Leading Ladies (2020)
• Nezura 1964 (2020)
• Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano (2020)
• Fukushima 50 (2020)
• Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman (2020)
• Black Lizard (2019)
• Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!! (2019)
• BOLT (2019)
• An Artist of the Floating World (2019)
• We Are Little Zombies (2019)
• The Great Buddha Arrival (2018)
• Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special (2018)
• Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu (2018)
• My Little Monster (2018)
• I Will Never Forgive (2018)
• Roupeiro's Melancholy (2018)
• 確証～警視庁捜査三課 (2017)
• Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis (2017)
• Tatara Samurai (2017)
• Parks (2017)
• Random Lives (2017)
• Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders (2016)
• Snow Woman (2016)
• Zen and Bones (2016)
• Yuriko's Picture Book (2016)
• The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (2016)
• Enishi: The Bride of Izumo (2016)
• 黒の斜面 (2016)
• Bikuu: The Movie (2015)
• Police Precinct Soul (2015)
• Mr. Love Chemistry 2 (2015)
• I Alone (2015)
• Kinki (2014)
• Phantom Limb (2014)
• Magnet Man (2014)
• Oh! Father (2014)
• The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom (2014)
• Housekeeper the Peeper (2014)
• Piano in a Storeroom (2014)
• Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel (2014)
• The Locked Room Murders SP (2014)
• Miroku (2013)
• Under the Nagasaki Sky (2013)
• Reunion (2013)
• The Intermission (2013)
• The Millennial Rapture (2012)
• 波の塔 (2012)
• レベル7 (2012)
• Rock'n'Roll Housewives (2012)
• Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie (2012)
• My Way (2011)
• Hayabusa (2011)
• HESOMORI -ヘソモリ- (2011)
• Wasao (2011)
• Tenohira no memo (2010)
• Railways (2010)
• If Blessed (2010)
• Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess (2009)
• Miyoko (2009)
• The Code (2009)
• The Triumphant Return of General Rouge (2009)
• Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster (2009)
• Life Improvement Club (2008)
• The Yagyu Conspiracy (2008)
• Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special (2008)
• 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
• Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects (2008)
• Kitaro and the Millennium Curse (2008)
• The Taste of Fish (2008)
• The Glorious Team Batista (2008)
• Persona (2008)
• Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007 (2007)
• Waiting in the Dark (2006)
• Vanished (2006)
• A Drop of Dew: Shoji Ueda's Photographs that Woke the World (2006)
• Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special (2006)
• Detective Office 5 (2005)
• The Suspect: Muroi Shinji (2005)
• The Great Yokai War (2005)
• Arthouse Ultraman (2005)
• The Passed Scene (2005)
• All About My Dog (2005)
• The Sun (2005)
• Infection (2004)
• Perfect Education 6 (2004)
• Takada Wataru Teki (2004)
• Oh! My Zombie Mermaid (2004)
• The Battling Angel (2003)
• The Negotiator (2003)
• 朱夏～警视厅恐吓事件 (2003)
• Time Limit (2003)
• Rika (2003)
• Cop Festival: New Beginning (2003)
• An Autumn Afternoon (2003)
• Aiki (2002)
• Shangri-La (2002)
• Picaresque (2002)
• Kamaitachi no Yoru (2002)
• Kewaishi (2002)
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
• The Princess Blade (2001)
• Pokémon 4Ever (2001)
• The Armchair Detective's Christmas Eve (2000)
• Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)
• Karaoke (1999)
• Cat's Eye (1997)
• The Defender (1997)
• Spring and Chaos (1996)
• Target (1996)
• The Trap (1996)
• Snow falls on a southern island (1995)
• Endless Waltz (1995)
• Sharaku (1995)
• Burai-Heiya (1995)
• The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995)
• The Mystery of Rampo (1994)
• It's a Summer Vacation Everyday (1994)
• The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994)
• Rampo - Bewitching Women (1994)
• The Anthropology of a Fight Scene (1993)
• The Room (1993)
• Rainbow Bridge (1993)
• Gensen-Kan Inn (1993)
• The Brutal Insanity of Love (1993)
• Haruka, Nostalgia (1993)
• My Beloved Ultraseven (1993)
• Garo Video 3: Hisago (1992)
• The Rocking Horsemen (1992)
• Can You Collect It? (1992)
• Sosuke Loses His Lover (1992)
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1992)
• Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki (1992)
• Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo (1992)
• Red Foliage (1992)
• Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown (1992)
• Swimming with Tears (1992)
• Shimanto River (1991)
• TVO (1991)
• King's Playing With Fire (1991)
• Seven Days War 2 (1991)
• Discontinuous Bombing Incident (1991)
• Ready to Shoot (1990)
• Lady Battle Cop (1990)
• Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars (1990)
• Natsu no pēji (1990)
• The Legend of Zipang (1990)
• Circus Boys (1989)
• The Dancer (1989)
• Violent Cop (1989)
• Festival of Dreams (1989)
• Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989)
• Lucky Sky Diamond (1989)
• Seven Days War (1988)
• Tomorrow (1988)
• Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)
• The Heartbreak Yakuza (1987)
• To Sleep So as to Dream (1986)