--- name: "Shirō Sano" canonical: "https://film.one/person/shiro-sano" fi1m_id: "shiro-sano" imdb_id: "nm0762965" tmdb_id: 73139 wikidata_id: "Q3959632" roles: ["Actor"] born: "4 March 1955" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-28T21:15:31.756436+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Shirō Sano ## Identity Shirō Sano - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shiro-sano - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** shiro-sano - **IMDb ID:** nm0762965 - **TMDB ID:** 73139 - **Wikidata ID:** Q3959632 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Sano, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3959632, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762965/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73139 Actor. Born 4 March 1955 in Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 4 March 1955, Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan - **Active:** 1999–2001 - **Also known as:** Shiro Sano, 佐野 史郎, Shirou Sano, Shiroh Sano, 사노 시로, Shirô Sano - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Sano, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3959632, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762965/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73139 ## Biography Shirō Sano (born 4 March 1955) is a Japanese actor, film director and musician. Born in Yamanashi Prefecture and raised partly in Matsue, Shimane, he trained in theatre and joined several troupes, including Jōkyō Gekijō. He made his first starring film appearance in *To Sleep so as to Dream* (1986) and gained wider recognition for his role in the 1992 television drama *Zutto Anata ga Suki datta*. His film credits include *Violent Cop* (1989), *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999) as Prof. Shiro Miyasaka, and *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack* (2001) as Haruki Kadokura. He made his directorial debut with *Karaoke* (1999). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, wikizilla.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), Fi1m 63, as Prof. Shiro Miyasaka — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-2000-millennium.md) ## Complete filmography (272) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *S&X* (2026), series, as Norio Toyohara - *Living Corpse* (2026), as (voice) - *Ultraman Teo* (2026), series, as Takayuki Tsukahara - *Ice Blood* (2026), Actor - *Is It Too Late for Sushi?* (2026), series, as Tateishi Funao - *The Flying Tackle: A Great Whirlwind* (2025), as Daizo Sawada - *Two Seasons, Two Strangers* (2025), as Uonuma - *The Ghost Writer's Wife* (2025), series, as Eto Yasumune - *Good News* (2025), as Sugimoto - *AOSHO! Voices in Bloom* (2025), Actor - *Dr. Ashura* (2025), series, as Katsuji Fudo - *Silence of the Sea* (2024), as Cabinet Minister Kirigaya - *Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker* (2024), as Jung Hak-sun - *Happyend* (2024), as Principal Nagai - *Brush of the God* (2024), Actor - *警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 －炎上－* (2024), Actor - *Shimane Multiverse Den* (2024), Actor - *Dear Kaita Ablaze* (2023), as Satoshi - *Oshorin* (2023), Actor - *Between the White Key and the Black Key* (2023), as Takumi - *疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕* (2023), Actor - *The Killer Inside* (2022), series, as Masato Shirabishi - *暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕* (2022), Actor - *Intimate Stranger* (2022), Actor - *"Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira* (2022), Actor - *The Journalist* (2022), series, as Hisashi Nakagawa - *How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!* (2021), series, as Takeshi Mizuguchi - *Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction* (2021), as Kazuo Kudo - *Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie* (2021), as Nobuo Asanuma - *So Close! Detective Oshii 2* (2021), series, as Enoshita Chikara - *Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira* (2021), series, Actor - *Nezura 1964* (2020), as Azuma - *Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira* (2020), series, Actor - *Jubaku Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira* (2020), series, Actor - *24 JAPAN* (2020), series, as Genji Onitsuka - *Cursed in Love* (2020), series, as Sōjurō Takatsuki - *Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano* (2020), as Mitsunori Yagawa - *Fukushima 50* (2020), as Prime Minister - *Secret of 10* (2020), series, as Yutaka Naganuma - *Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman* (2020), Actor - *Black Lizard* (2019), Actor - *Top League* (2019), series, Actor - *So Close! Detective Oshii* (2019), series, as Chikara Enoshita - *Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!!* (2019), as Valma - *BOLT* (2019), Actor - *Tokyo 23-ku Onna* (2019), series, as Hyuga - *An Artist of the Floating World* (2019), as Dr. Saito - *We Are Little Zombies* (2019), as Kamo Keiichiro - *The Great Buddha Arrival* (2018), Actor - *Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special* (2018), Actor - *Harassment Game* (2018), series, as Mizutani Itsuro - *Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu* (2018), Actor - *The Habitation* (2018), series, as Seiji Terauchi - *My Little Monster* (2018), as Taizo Yoshida, Taizou Yoshida - *The Confidence Man JP* (2018), series, as Tsutomu Tawaraya - *I Will Never Forgive* (2018), Actor - *SICK'S Jo no Shou* (2018), series, as Yuichi Oshima - *Spring Has Come* (2018), series, as Shuji Kishikawa - *Roupeiro's Melancholy* (2018), Actor - *Segodon* (2018), series, as Ii Naosuke - *確証～警視庁捜査三課* (2017), Actor - *Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis* (2017), Actor - *Tatara Samurai* (2017), as Tokugawa’s vassal - *Parks* (2017), Actor - *Random Lives* (2017), as Tadao - *Silver and Gold* (2017), series, as Akio Nakajima - *Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders* (2016), as Michihiko Zaizen / Dr. Pac-Man - *Snow Woman* (2016), Actor - *Zen and Bones* (2016), as Tatsuo Ishii - *Yuriko's Picture Book* (2016), Actor - *Ultraman Orb* (2016), series, as Ryutaro Suganuma - *99.9 Criminal Lawyer* (2016), series, as Masahiko Todo（藤堂 正彦） - *仮釈放の条件 出口の裁判官 岬真斗香* (2016), series, Actor - *The Woman Who Took the Local Paper* (2016), Actor - *Enishi: The Bride of Izumo* (2016), as Yasuo Soda - *黒の斜面* (2016), Actor - *Whispers from a Crime Scene* (2016), series, as Yuzo Shindo - *Bikuu: The Movie* (2015), as Zeshin - *Police Precinct Soul* (2015), as Muneo Yamaoka - *Mr. Love Chemistry 2* (2015), Actor - *The Last Cop* (2015), series, as Endo Yuji - *I Alone* (2015), Actor - *Kinki* (2014), as Konomi Mitsuru - *Phantom Limb* (2014), Actor - *Osoroshi* (2014), series, Actor - *Magnet Man* (2014), Actor - *Eat and Sleep Together, Live Together* (2014), series, as Machida Yuzo - *Oh! Father* (2014), as Satoru - *Tokusou* (2014), series, as Norio Shinohara - *MOZU* (2014), series, as Kiyoharu Ikezawa - *The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom* (2014), as Tankuro Hinode - *Housekeeper the Peeper* (2014), as Taizan Kitamura - *Piano in a Storeroom* (2014), Actor - *Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel* (2014), Actor - *The Locked Room Murders SP* (2014), as Tetsuji Hiramatsu - *Miroku* (2013), Actor - *Dandarin Rules* (2013), series, as Shigeo Manabe - *Under the Nagasaki Sky* (2013), as Morikazu Kadota - *Trembling Cow* (2013), series, Actor - *Public Affairs Office in the Sky* (2013), series, as Koichi Takigawa - *Kumokiri Nizaemon* (2013), series, Actor - *Reunion* (2013), Actor - *The Intermission* (2013), Actor - *The Farthest Galaxy* (2013), series, Actor - *ミエリーノ柏木* (2013), series, Actor - *The Millennial Rapture* (2012), as Reina - *Rich Man, Poor Woman* (2012), series, as Yamashita - *波の塔* (2012), as 이시이 테츠오 - *レベル7* (2012), as 犬山刑事 - *Future Diary Another World* (2012), series, as Toru - *The Locked Room Murders* (2012), series, as Hiramatsu Tetsuji - *Rock'n'Roll Housewives* (2012), Actor - *Doppleganger* (2012), series, as Ujiie Kiyoshi - *Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie* (2012), as Ashurada (voice) / Weeval - *My Way* (2011), as Tatsuo's Father - *A Taste of Honey* (2011), series, as Tadashi Kirishima - *Hayabusa* (2011), as Kawabuchi - *HESOMORI -ヘソモリ-* (2011), Actor - *CSI: Crime Scene Talks* (2011), series, as Takeo Sone - *Wasao* (2011), as Shigeo - *Dōki* (2011), series, Actor - *Kyukei no Koya* (2010), series, Actor - *Tenohira no memo* (2010), as 折川孝之 - *SPEC ~ First Blood* (2010), series, as Yuichi Oshima - *Railways* (2010), as Nobuo Ishikawa - *Left-Eye Detective* (2010), series, as Yuya Fukuchi - *If Blessed* (2010), Actor - *Clouds Over the Hill* (2009), series, as 陸羯（カツ）南 - *Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess* (2009), as Michio Nishino - *Miyoko* (2009), Actor - *The Code* (2009), as Detective 501 - *The Triumphant Return of General Rouge* (2009), as Yuji Kakiya - *Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster* (2009), as Dr. Murakami - *Life Improvement Club* (2008), as Ueda - *The Yagyu Conspiracy* (2008), Actor - *Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special* (2008), Actor - *20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End* (2008), as Mâ-bô, Yan-bô - *Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects* (2008), as Himeself - *Kitaro and the Millennium Curse* (2008), as Jakotsu Babaa - *The Taste of Fish* (2008), Actor - *The Glorious Team Batista* (2008), as Yuji Kakiya - *Persona* (2008), Actor - *Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007* (2007), as Kagaya Genemon - *Wives Make the World Go Round* (2007), series, Actor - *王様の心臓〜リア王より〜* (2007), series, as 黒田数男 - *Waiting in the Dark* (2006), as Akihiro's Boss - *Vanished* (2006), Actor - *A Drop of Dew: Shoji Ueda's Photographs that Woke the World* (2006), Director - *PS－羅生門－　警視庁東都署* (2006), series, Actor - *Scum of Lawyers* (2006), series, Actor - *Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special* (2006), as 半沢杜夫 - *Angels with Broken Wings* (2006), series, as Maekawa Takuro - *Kuitan* (2006), series, as Shuji Igarashi - *Satomi Hakkenden* (2006), series, as Daiki Makuwari - *Detective Office 5* (2005), as 501 - *Onna Keiji Mizuki: Kyoto Rakusai Sho Monogatari* (2005), series, as Okita Tomohito - *Detective Office 5: Another Story* (2005), series, as Officer 501, 501 - *The Suspect: Muroi Shinji* (2005), as 窪園 行雄 - *The Great Yokai War* (2005), as "Mysterious" Editor - *Ultraman Max* (2005), series, as Narration - *Arthouse Ultraman* (2005), as Narrator - *The Passed Scene* (2005), as Kazuo Shimosaka - *All About My Dog* (2005), as Uncle - *The Sun* (2005), as The chamberlain - *Infection* (2004), as Kiyoshi Akai - *Perfect Education 6* (2004), Actor - *Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy* (2004), series, as Narrator (voice) - *Vampire Host* (2004), series, as Tenran - *Dollhouse* (2004), series, as Chief Tasaki - *Oh! My Zombie Mermaid* (2004), as Yamaji - *Dokushin 3* (2003), series, Actor - *The Battling Angel* (2003), as Ashida - *警視庁・樋口警部補* (2003), series, as 氏家譲 - *The Negotiator* (2003), as Lt. Ando - *朱夏～警视厅恐吓事件* (2003), Actor - *樋口警部補* (2003), series, Actor - *Time Limit* (2003), Actor - *Rika* (2003), Actor - *Cop Festival: New Beginning* (2003), Actor - *Kao* (2003), series, as Osamu Minoda（箕田 修） - *Sky High* (2003), series, Actor - *An Autumn Afternoon* (2003), as Koichi Hirayama - *Aiki* (2002), Actor - *AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo* (2002), series, Actor - *Shangri-La* (2002), as Kuwata - *Picaresque* (2002), Actor - *Kamaitachi no Yoru* (2002), Actor - *しあわせのシッポ* (2002), series, as 竹屋喜好 - *Kewaishi* (2002), Actor - *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack* (2001), as Haruki Kadokura - *The Princess Blade* (2001), as Kidokoro - *Platonic Sex* (2001), series, as Ishikawa - *Pokémon 4Ever* (2001), as Vicious (voice) - *闇の脅迫者　江戸川乱歩の《陰獣》より* (2001), series, Actor - *The Armchair Detective's Christmas Eve* (2000), Actor - *Trick* (2000), series, Actor - *Food Fight* (2000), series, as Miyazono Kyosaku - *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), as Prof. Shiro Miyasaka — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-2000-millennium.md) - *Karaoke* (1999), Director, Story - *Good News* (1999), series, Actor - *Kimi to Ita Mirai no Tame ni ~ I'll be back* (1999), series, Actor - *Frozen Summer* (1998), series, as Oikawa Kenichi - *LOVE&PEACE* (1998), series, Actor - *Blue Bird* (1997), series, as Hiromu Watanuki - *Cat's Eye* (1997), as Chief - *The Glass Shoe* (1997), series, Actor - *The Defender* (1997), as Wizard - *Spring and Chaos* (1996), as Kenji Miyazawa - *Love and Lies* (1996), series, Actor - *グッドラック* (1996), series, Actor - *Target* (1996), Actor - *The Trap* (1996), as Masaru Kanno - *Invisible Man* (1996), series, Actor - *Snow falls on a southern island* (1995), Actor - *Endless Waltz* (1995), Actor - *Sashow The Last Case* (1995), series, Actor - *Sharaku* (1995), as Utamaro - *Burai-Heiya* (1995), as Tadao - *The Stairway to the Distant Past* (1995), as Masaru Kanno - *Watashi no Unmei* (1994), series, as Katagiri Shuntaro - *The Mystery of Rampo* (1994), as Officer - *It's a Summer Vacation Everyday* (1994), as Nariyuki Rinkaiji - *長男の嫁* (1994), series, Actor - *Hana no Ran* (1994), series, as Ashikaga Yoshimi - *The Most Terrible Time in My Life* (1994), as Masaru Kanno - *Rampo - Bewitching Women* (1994), Actor - *The Anthropology of a Fight Scene* (1993), Actor - *The Room* (1993), as The Dying Man - *Rainbow Bridge* (1993), Actor - *Gensen-Kan Inn* (1993), as Yoshiharu Tsuge - *The Secret* (1993), series, as Yamada Mario - *誰にも言えない* (1993), series, Actor - *The Brutal Insanity of Love* (1993), as Tetsuro Muraki - *Double Kitchen* (1993), series, Actor - *Haruka, Nostalgia* (1993), as Tutor - *My Beloved Ultraseven* (1993), as Tetsuo Kinjo - *Garo Video 3: Hisago* (1992), Actor - *The Rocking Horsemen* (1992), as Noritane Itoh - *Can You Collect It?* (1992), Actor - *Sosuke Loses His Lover* (1992), as Shinji Kitamura - *The Shadow Over Innsmouth* (1992), as Takuji Hirata - *Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki* (1992), as Kurahashi - *Zutto Anata ga Sukidatta* (1992), series, Actor - *Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo* (1992), Actor - *Red Foliage* (1992), as Shunji Muroi - *Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown* (1992), Actor - *Swimming with Tears* (1992), Actor - *Tokyo Elevator Girl* (1992), series, as Creator - *Shimanto River* (1991), Actor - *TVO* (1991), as Detective Takatsuka - *King's Playing With Fire* (1991), Actor - *Seven Days War 2* (1991), Actor - *Discontinuous Bombing Incident* (1991), Actor - *Ready to Shoot* (1990), as Kikuchi - *Lady Battle Cop* (1990), as Henry Ohba - *Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen* (1990), series, Actor - *Tales of the Bizarre* (1990), series, Actor - *Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars* (1990), as Correspondent Morita - *Natsu no pēji* (1990), as Kazuki - *The Legend of Zipang* (1990), as Bunshichi - *Circus Boys* (1989), as Hiroshi - *The Dancer* (1989), as Takashi Tanimura - *Violent Cop* (1989), as Yoshinari - *Festival of Dreams* (1989), Actor - *Four Days of Snow and Blood* (1989), as Yasuhide Kurihara - *Lucky Sky Diamond* (1989), as Katayama, a doctor - *Tomorrow* (1988), as Shoji Nakagawa - *Seven Days War* (1988), as Yashiro - *Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis* (1988), as Junichi Narumi - *The Heartbreak Yakuza* (1987), Actor - *To Sleep So as to Dream* (1986), as Detective Uozuka - *Female Detective Yuko Kasumi* (1985), series, Actor ## Gallery - ![Shirō Sano](https://film.one/media/person/4096991/gallery-89cbb9d73a0f.jpg) Shirō Sano — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Sano_Shiro_from_%22Snow_Woman%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2016_%2832830733983%29.jpg/1280px-Sano_Shiro_from_%22Snow_Woman%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2016_%2832830733983%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第29回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 佐野史郎 (雪女) (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/4096991/gallery-d14d6448d1bd.jpg) 第29回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 佐野史郎 (雪女) (2016) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Sano_Shiro_from_%22Snow_Woman%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2016_%2832830737353%29.jpg/1280px-Sano_Shiro_from_%22Snow_Woman%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2016_%2832830737353%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第29回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 佐野史郎 (雪女) (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/4096991/gallery-c0b6040322fd.jpg) 第29回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 佐野史郎 (雪女) (2016) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sano_Shiro_from_%22Snow_Woman%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2016_%2833603708306%29.jpg/1280px-Sano_Shiro_from_%22Snow_Woman%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2016_%2833603708306%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第2回横浜国際映画祭 佐野史郎 (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/4096991/gallery-c5be9e5c9f43.jpg) 第2回横浜国際映画祭 佐野史郎 (2024) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Yokohama_International_Film_Festival_2024_Sano_Shiro_%2853868987891%29.jpg/1280px-Yokohama_International_Film_Festival_2024_Sano_Shiro_%2853868987891%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shirō Sano](https://film.one/media/person/4096991/gallery-4ee0832e2260.jpg) Shirō Sano — Image via TMDB - ![第29回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 佐野史郎 (雪女) (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/4096991/gallery-c9b3ae228b3d.jpg) 第29回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 佐野史郎 (雪女) (2016) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Sano_Shiro_from_%22Snow_Woman%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2016_%2832830739273%29.jpg/1280px-Sano_Shiro_from_%22Snow_Woman%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2016_%2832830739273%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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