Shiro Sano
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Shiro Sano

Born 4 March 1955 · Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
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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.

Known for

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