Shiro Sano

Biography

Shiro Sano (佐野史郎, Sano Shirō, born 4 March 1955) is a Japanese actor.

Known For

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Trick

Tales of the Bizarre

The Secret

Yamada Mario

The Confidence Man JP

Tsutomu Tawaraya

Ultraman Orb

Ryutaro Suganuma

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	Brush of the God
2024	Silence of the Sea	Cabinet Minister Kirigaya
2024	Shimane Multiverse Den
2024	Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker	Jung Hak-sun
2024	Happyend	Principal Nagai
2024	警視庁強行犯係樋口顕－炎上－
2023	Between the White Key and the Black Key	Takumi
2023	Dear Kaita Ablaze
2023	Oshorin
2023	疑念警視庁強行犯係樋口顕
2022	Intimate Stranger
2022	暁鐘警視庁強行犯係樋口顕
2021	Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie	Nobuo Asanuma
2021	Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction	Kazuo Kudo
2020	Fukushima 50	Prime Minister
2020	Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano	Mitsunori Yagawa
2020	Godzilla's Leading Ladies	Himself
2020	Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
2020	Nezura 1964	Azuma
2019	Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!!	Valma
2019	We Are Little Zombies	Kamo Keiichiro
2019	BOLT
2019	An Artist of the Floating World	Dr. Saito
2019	Black Lizard
2018	Roupeiro's Melancholy
2018	Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
2018	My Little Monster	Taizo Yoshida
2018	The Great Buddha Arrival
2018	My Little Monster	Taizou Yoshida
2018	I Will Never Forgive
2018	Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special
2017	Tatara Samurai	Tokugawa’s vassal
2017	Parks
2017	Random Lives	Tadao
2017	Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis
2017	確証～警視庁捜査三課
2016	Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders	Michihiko Zaizen / Dr. Pac-Man
2016	The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
2016	Zen and Bones	Tatsuo Ishii
2016	Yuriko's Picture Book
2016	Snow Woman
2016	Enishi: The Bride of Izumo	Yasuo Soda
2016	黒の斜面
2015	Mr. Love Chemistry 2
2015	I Alone
2015	Police Precinct Soul	Muneo Yamaoka
2015	Bikuu: The Movie	Zeshin
2014	The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom	Tankuro Hinode
2014	Oh! Father	Satoru
2014	Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
2014	The Locked Room Murders SP
2014	Piano in a Storeroom
2014	Housekeeper the Peeper	Taizan Kitamura
2014	Phantom Limb
2014	Kinki	Konomi Mitsuru
2014	Magnet Man
2013	Reunion
2013	Miroku
2013	Under the Nagasaki Sky	Morikazu kadota
2013	The Intermission
2012	波の塔	이시이 테츠오
2012	The Millennial Rapture	Reina
2012	Rock'n'Roll Housewives
2012	Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie	Ashurada (voice) / Weeval
2012	レベル7	犬山刑事
2011	Hayabusa	Kawabuchi
2011	Wasao	Shigeo
2011	HESOMORI -ヘソモリ-
2011	My Way	Tatsuo's Father
2010	Railways	Nobuo Ishikawa
2010	Tenohira no memo	折川孝之
2010	If Blessed
2009	Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess	Michio Nishino
2009	The Triumphant Return of General Rouge	Yuji Kakiya
2009	The Code	Detective 501
2009	Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster	Dr. Murakami
2009	Miyoko
2008	20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End	Mâ-bô
2008	20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End	Yan-bô
2008	Persona
2008	Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special
2008	Tojin Kit	Shimada (voice)
2008	Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects	Himeself
2008	Life Improvement Club	Ueda
2008	The Taste of Fish
2008	The Yagyu Conspiracy
2008	The Glorious Team Batista	Yuji Kakiya
2007	Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007	Kagaya Genemon
2006	Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special	半沢杜夫
2006	Vanished
2005	The Sun	The chamberlain
2005	Detective Office 5	501
2005	The Suspect: Muroi Shinji	窪園行雄
2005	All About My Dog	Uncle
2005	Arthouse Ultraman	Narrator
2005	The Great Yokai War	"Mysterious" Editor
2005	The Passed Scene	Kazuo Shimosaka
2004	Infection	Kiyoshi Akai
2004	Oh! My Zombie Mermaid	Yamaji
2004	Perfect Education 6
2004	Takada Wataru Teki	Self
2003	The Negotiator	Lt. Ando
2003	Cop Festival: New Beginning
2003	The Battling Angel	Ashida
2003	Time Limit
2002	Kamaitachi no Yoru
2002	Shangri-La	Kuwata
2002	Aiki
2002	Kewaishi
2001	Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack	Haruki Kadokura
2001	The Princess Blade	Kidokoro
2001	Pokémon 4Ever	Vicious (voice)
2000	安楽椅子探偵の聖夜
1999	Godzilla 2000: Millennium	Prof. Shiro Miyasaka
1999	Karaoke
1997	The Defender	Wizard
1997	Cat's Eye	Chief
1996	Spring and Chaos	Kenji Miyazawa
1996	The Trap	Masaru Kanno
1996	Target
1995	The Stairway to the Distant Past	Masaru Kanno
1995	The Mystery of Rampo	Officer
1995	Sharaku	Utamaro
1995	Endless Waltz
1995	Villain Field	Tadao
1994	Rampo - Bewitching Women
1994	The Most Terrible Time in My Life	Masaru Kanno
1994	It's a Summer Vacation Everyday	Nariyuki Rinkaiji
1993	Gensen-Kan Inn	Yoshiharu Tsuge
1993	The Brutal Insanity of Love	Tetsuro Muraki
1993	The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
1993	Haruka, Nostalgia	Tutor
1992	Can You Collect It?
1992	Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki	Kurahashi
1992	Garo Video 3: Hisago
1992	Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo
1992	The Shadow Over Innsmouth	Takuji Hirata
1992	Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
1992	The Rocking Horsemen	Noritane Itoh
1992	Sosuke Loses His Lover	Shinji Kitamura
1992	Swimming with Tears
1992	The Room	The Dying Man
1992	Red Foliage	Shunji Muroi
1991	King's Playing With Fire
1991	Discontinuous Bombing Incident
1991	Seven Days War 2
1991	TVO	Detective Takatsuka
1991	Shimanto River
1990	Natsu no pēji	Kazuki
1990	Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars	Correspondent Morita
1990	The Legend of Zipang	Bunshichi
1990	Ready to Shoot	Kikuchi
1990	Lady Battle Cop	Henry Ôba
1989	Violent Cop	Yoshinari
1989	Lucky Sky Diamond	Doctor
1989	Circus Boys	Hiroshi
1989	The Dancer	Takashi Tanimura
1989	Four Days of Snow and Blood	Yasuhide Kurihara
1989	Festival of Dreams
1988	Seven Days War	Yashiro
1988	Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis	Junichi Narumi
1988	Tomorrow	Shoji Nakagawa
1987	The Heartbreak Yakuza
1986	To Sleep So as to Dream	Detective Uozuka

Year	TV Show	Role
2025	Dr. Ashura	Katsuji Fudo
2022	The Journalist	Hisashi Nakagawa
2022	My Dearest Self with Malice Aforethought	Masato Shirabishi
2021	So Close! Detective Oshii 2	Enoshita Chikara
2021	How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!	Takeshi Mizuguchi
2021	Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira
2020	24 JAPAN	Genji Onitsuka
2020	Cursed in Love	Sōjurō Takatsuki
2020	Jubaku Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
2020	Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
2019	Top League
2019	So Close! Detective Oshii	Chikara Enoshita
2018	The Confidence Man JP
2018	Spring Has Come	Shuji Kishikawa
2018	SICK'S Jo no Shou	Yuichi Oshima
2018	The Confidence Man JP	Tsutomu Tawaraya
2018	Segodon	Ii Naosuke
2018	The Habitation	Seiji Terauchi
2018	Harassment Game	Mizutani Itsuro
2017	Silver and Gold	Akio Nakajima
2016	仮釈放の条件出口の裁判官岬真斗香
2016	Ultraman Orb	Ryutaro Suganuma
2016	99.9 Criminal Lawyer	Masahiko Todo（藤堂正彦）
2016	Whispers from a Crime Scene	Yuzo Shindo
2015	The Last Cop	Endo Yuji
2014	MOZU	Kiyoharu Ikezawa
2014	Osoroshi
2014	Eat and Sleep Together, Live Together	Machida Yuzo
2013	Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013	The Farthest Galaxy
2013	Dandarin Rules	Shigeo Manabe
2013	Furueru Ushi
2013	ミエリーノ柏木
2012	Rich Man, Poor Woman	Yamashita
2012	Future Diary Another World	Toru
2012	Doppleganger	Ujiie Kiyoshi
2011	CSI: Crime Scene Talks	Takeo Sone
2011	A Taste of Honey	Tadashi Kirishima
2010	SPEC ~ First Blood	Yuichi Oshima
2010	Kyukei no Koya
2010	Left-Eye Detective	Fukuchi Yuya
2009	Clouds Over the Hill	陸羯（カツ）南
2007	Wives Make the World Go Round
2007	王様の心臓〜リア王より〜	黒田数男
2006	Kuitan	Shuji Igarashi
2006	PS羅生門
2006	Scum of Lawyers
2006	Satomi Hakkenden	Daiki Makuwari
2006	Angels with Broken Wings	Maekawa Takuro
2005	Detective Office 5: Another Story	Officer 501
2005	Detective Office 5: Another Story	501
2005	Ultraman Max	Narration
2004	Vampire Host	Tenran
2004	Dollhouse	Chief Tasaki
2004	Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy	Narrator (voice)
2003	Sky High
2003	Dokushin 3
2003	Kao	Osamu Minoda（箕田修）
2003	樋口警部補
2003	警視庁・樋口警部補	氏家譲
2002	AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002	しあわせのシッポ	竹屋喜好
2001	Platonic Sex	Ishikawa
2001	闇の脅迫者　江戸川乱歩の《陰獣》より
2000	Trick
2000	Food Fight	Miyazono Kyosaku
1999	Kimi to Ita Mirai no Tame ni ~ I'll be back
1999	Good News
1998	Frozen Summer	Oikawa Kenichi
1998	LOVE&PEACE
1997	The Glass Shoe
1997	Blue Bird	Watanuki Hiromu
1996	Invisible Man
1996	Love and Lies
1996	グッドラック
1995	Sashow The Last Case
1994	Watashi no Unmei	Katagiri Shuntaro
1994	長男の嫁
1994	Hana no Ran	Ashikaga Yoshimi
1993	The Secret	Yamada Mario
1993	誰にも言えない
1993	ダブル・キッチン
1992	Zutto Anata ga Sukidatta
1992	Tokyo Elevator Girl
1990	Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990	Tales of the Bizarre
1985	Female Detective Yuko Kasumi