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

Shirō Sano
佐野 史郎
Born	(1955-03-04) 4 March 1955 (age 67) Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan (Raised: Matsue, Shimane)
Occupation	Actor, film director, musician
Years active	1975–present
Spouse	Maki Ishikawa
Website	Kisseidō

Career

Born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Sano lived in Tokyo and Matsue, Shimane as a child, before returning to Tokyo to enter art school.[1] He joined several theatrical troupes, including Jurō Kara's Jōkyō Gekijō. He had his first starring role in a film in Kaizō Hayashi's To Sleep so as to Dream in 1986,[2] but gained fame for playing the character Fuyuhiko in the television drama Zutto Anata ga Suki datta in 1992.[1] He directed his first film, Karaoke, in 1999.[3]

Filmography

Films

• To Sleep so as to Dream (1986)
• Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)
• Tomorrow (1988)
• Violent Cop (1989)
• It's a Summer Vacation Everyday (1994)
• Sharaku (1995)
• Karaoke (1999) (as director)
• Godzilla 2000 (1999)
• The Princess Blade (2001)
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
• Infection (2004) – Dr. Kiyoshi Akai[4]
• Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
• The Sun (2005)
• Waiting in the Dark (2006)[5]
• Persona (2008)
• Railways (2010)
• Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie (2012) – Chief of Space Police Weeval (Actor)/Makuu Prison Warden Ashurada (Voice)
• Reunion (2012)
• Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Rider (2016) – Michihiko Zaizen (Actor)/Dr. Pac-Man (Voice)/Genomes (Voice)
• Bikuu: Yamigirinochi (2015) - Zesshin
• Nariyuki na Tamashii (2017) – Tadao Tsuge
• Parks (2017) – Professor Inoue
• Roupeiro no Yūutsu (2018)
• My Little Monster (2018)
• We Are Little Zombies (2019), Keiichiro Kamo
• Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger the Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!! (2019) - Valma
• Fukushima 50 (2020) – The Prime Minister
• Bolt (2020)
• Independence of Japan (2020) – Tatsukichi Minobe
• Hiroshima Piano (2020)[6]
• Nezura 1964 (2021) – Azuma[7]
• Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction (2021)
• Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie (2021)
• Intimate Stranger (2022)[8]

Television

• Zutto Anata ga Suki datta (1992)
• Hana no Ran (1994)
• Platonic Sex (2001) – Ishikawa[9]
• Vanpaia Hosuto (2004)
• Water Boys 2 (2004)
• Kuitan 2 (2007)
• Saka no Ue no Kumo (2009–2011)
• Deka Wanko (2011)
• Shizumanu Taiyō (2016)
• Naotora: The Lady Warlord (2017) – Sessai Choro
• Spring Has Come (2017)
• Ishitsubute (2017)
• Segodon (2018) – Ii Naosuke
• Genkai Danchi (2018) – Seiji Terauchi

Anime

• GeGeGe no Kitarō (4th) (1996) – Vampire Elite (ep. 57)

References

External links

• Official website Kisseidō (in Japanese)
• Shirō Sano at IMDb

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