Shiro Sano: movies and TV shows
Shiro Sano has 276 credits in the archive: 180 films and 96 TV series, from 1985 to 2026. Highest rated: Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (9.5/10).
Career timeline
1985 – 2026 · busiest year: 2018 (14 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Ice Blood | Film | — | 71 | |
| 2026 | Toki Sudeni Osushi!? | Tateishi Funao | TV | 7.0 | 71 |
| 2026 | Living Corpse | (voice) | Film | — | 71 |
| 2025 | The Ghost Writer's Wife | Eto Yasumune | TV | 9.1 | 70 |
| 2025 | Good News | Sugimoto | Film | 6.9 | 70 |
| 2025 | Two Seasons, Two Strangers | Uonuma | Film | 7.5 | 70 |
| 2025 | Dr. Ashura | Katsuji Fudo | TV | 5.3 | 70 |
| 2025 | The Flying Tackle: A Great Whirlwind | Daizo Sawada | Film | — | 70 |
| 2025 | AOSHO! Voices in Bloom | Film | — | 70 | |
| 2024 | Happyend | Principal Nagai | Film | 6.9 | 69 |
| 2024 | Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker | Jung Hak-sun | Film | 4.8 | 69 |
| 2024 | Silence of the Sea | Cabinet Minister Kirigaya | Film | 8.5 | 69 |
| 2024 | 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 -炎上- | Film | 7.0 | 69 | |
| 2024 | Brush of the God | Film | 8.2 | 69 | |
| 2024 | Shimane Multiverse Den | Film | — | 69 | |
| 2023 | 疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 | Film | 7.0 | 68 | |
| 2023 | Between the White Key and the Black Key | Takumi | Film | 8.5 | 68 |
| 2023 | Oshorin | Film | — | 68 | |
| 2023 | Dear Kaita Ablaze | Satoshi | Film | — | 68 |
| 2022 | The Journalist | Hisashi Nakagawa | TV | 7.5 | 67 |
| 2022 | The Killer Inside | Masato Shirabishi | TV | 6.0 | 67 |
| 2022 | "Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira | Film | 7.3 | 67 | |
| 2022 | Intimate Stranger | Film | 7.0 | 67 | |
| 2022 | 暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 | Film | 7.0 | 67 | |
| 2021 | Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira | TV | 10.0 | 66 | |
| 2021 | How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family! | Takeshi Mizuguchi | TV | 5.7 | 66 |
| 2021 | So Close! Detective Oshii 2 | Enoshita Chikara | TV | 7.5 | 66 |
| 2021 | Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie | Nobuo Asanuma | Film | 7.2 | 66 |
| 2021 | Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction | Kazuo Kudo | Film | 7.4 | 66 |
| 2020 | 24 JAPAN | Genji Onitsuka | TV | 7.6 | 65 |
| 2020 | Cursed in Love | Sōjurō Takatsuki | TV | 7.1 | 65 |
| 2020 | Godzilla's Leading Ladies | Himself | Film | 9.5 | 65 |
| 2020 | Fukushima 50 | Prime Minister | Film | 6.5 | 65 |
| 2020 | Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman | Film | 7.0 | 65 | |
| 2020 | Secret of 10 | TV | 5.5 | 65 | |
| 2020 | Jubaku Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira | TV | — | 65 | |
| 2020 | Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira | TV | — | 65 | |
| 2020 | Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano | Mitsunori Yagawa | Film | — | 65 |
| 2020 | Nezura 1964 | Azuma | Film | 6.0 | 65 |
| 2019 | Tokyo 23-ku Onna | Hyuga | TV | 5.0 | 64 |
| 2019 | Top League | TV | 8.2 | 64 | |
| 2019 | So Close! Detective Oshii | Chikara Enoshita | TV | 8.2 | 64 |
| 2019 | Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!! | Valma | Film | — | 64 |
| 2019 | We Are Little Zombies | Kamo Keiichiro | Film | 6.6 | 64 |
| 2019 | An Artist of the Floating World | Dr. Saito | Film | — | 64 |
| 2019 | Black Lizard | Film | — | 64 | |
| 2019 | BOLT | Film | — | 64 | |
| 2018 | Segodon | Ii Naosuke | TV | 8.3 | 63 |
| 2018 | The Confidence Man JP | TV | 7.3 | 63 | |
| 2018 | The Confidence Man JP | Tsutomu Tawaraya | TV | 7.3 | 63 |
| 2018 | SICK'S Jo no Shou | Yuichi Oshima | TV | 9.0 | 63 |
| 2018 | My Little Monster | Taizo Yoshida | Film | 7.6 | 63 |
| 2018 | My Little Monster | Taizou Yoshida | Film | 7.6 | 63 |
| 2018 | Harassment Game | Mizutani Itsuro | TV | 7.0 | 63 |
| 2018 | Spring Has Come | Shuji Kishikawa | TV | 8.8 | 63 |
| 2018 | The Habitation | Seiji Terauchi | TV | — | 63 |
| 2018 | Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special | Film | 6.0 | 63 | |
| 2018 | I Will Never Forgive | Film | 4.5 | 63 | |
| 2018 | The Great Buddha Arrival | Film | 6.0 | 63 | |
| 2018 | Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu | Film | — | 63 | |
| 2018 | Roupeiro's Melancholy | Film | — | 63 | |
| 2017 | Random Lives | Tadao | Film | — | 62 |
| 2017 | Silver and Gold | Akio Nakajima | TV | 6.7 | 62 |
| 2017 | Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis | Film | 6.0 | 62 | |
| 2017 | Tatara Samurai | Tokugawa’s vassal | Film | 6.7 | 62 |
| 2017 | Parks | Film | 6.9 | 62 | |
| 2017 | 確証~警視庁捜査三課 | Film | — | 62 | |
| 2016 | 99.9 Criminal Lawyer | Masahiko Todo(藤堂 正彦) | TV | 6.9 | 61 |
| 2016 | Ultraman Orb | Ryutaro Suganuma | TV | 7.7 | 61 |
| 2016 | Whispers from a Crime Scene | Yuzo Shindo | TV | 7.8 | 61 |
| 2016 | Snow Woman | Film | 6.2 | 61 | |
| 2016 | Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders | Michihiko Zaizen / Dr. Pac-Man | Film | 7.6 | 61 |
| 2016 | The Woman Who Took the Local Paper | Film | 6.3 | 61 | |
| 2016 | 黒の斜面 | Film | — | 61 | |
| 2016 | Enishi: The Bride of Izumo | Yasuo Soda | Film | 6.5 | 61 |
| 2016 | Zen and Bones | Tatsuo Ishii | Film | — | 61 |
| 2016 | Yuriko's Picture Book | Film | — | 61 | |
| 2016 | 仮釈放の条件 出口の裁判官 岬真斗香 | TV | — | 61 | |
| 2015 | The Last Cop | Endo Yuji | TV | 6.7 | 60 |
| 2015 | Bikuu: The Movie | Zeshin | Film | 7.4 | 60 |
| 2015 | Mr. Love Chemistry 2 | Film | — | 60 | |
| 2015 | I Alone | Film | — | 60 | |
| 2015 | Police Precinct Soul | Muneo Yamaoka | Film | — | 60 |
| 2014 | MOZU | Kiyoharu Ikezawa | TV | 8.6 | 59 |
| 2014 | Osoroshi | TV | 6.0 | 59 | |
| 2014 | Kinki | Konomi Mitsuru | Film | 3.8 | 59 |
| 2014 | The Locked Room Murders SP | Tetsuji Hiramatsu | Film | 6.8 | 59 |
| 2014 | Eat and Sleep Together, Live Together | Machida Yuzo | TV | — | 59 |
| 2014 | Oh! Father | Satoru | Film | 5.5 | 59 |
| 2014 | The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom | Tankuro Hinode | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 2014 | Housekeeper the Peeper | Taizan Kitamura | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 2014 | Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel | Film | 5.8 | 59 | |
| 2014 | Phantom Limb | Film | — | 59 | |
| 2014 | Magnet Man | Film | — | 59 | |
| 2014 | Piano in a Storeroom | Film | — | 59 | |
| 2013 | Kumokiri Nizaemon | TV | 9.0 | 58 | |
| 2013 | Public Affairs Office in the Sky | Koichi Takigawa | TV | 8.2 | 58 |
| 2013 | Dandarin Rules | Shigeo Manabe | TV | 9.5 | 58 |
| 2013 | The Farthest Galaxy | TV | — | 58 | |
| 2013 | Trembling Cow | TV | 8.0 | 58 | |
| 2013 | ミエリーノ柏木 | TV | — | 58 | |
| 2013 | Reunion | Film | 8.0 | 58 | |
| 2013 | Under the Nagasaki Sky | Morikazu Kadota | Film | — | 58 |
| 2013 | The Intermission | Film | 7.0 | 58 | |
| 2013 | Miroku | Film | — | 58 | |
| 2012 | Rich Man, Poor Woman | Yamashita | TV | 7.3 | 57 |
| 2012 | The Locked Room Murders | Hiramatsu Tetsuji | TV | 7.2 | 57 |
| 2012 | 波の塔 | 이시이 테츠오 | Film | — | 57 |
| 2012 | Future Diary Another World | Toru | TV | 6.7 | 57 |
| 2012 | Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie | Ashurada (voice) / Weeval | Film | 6.8 | 57 |
| 2012 | Doppleganger | Ujiie Kiyoshi | TV | 6.5 | 57 |
| 2012 | The Millennial Rapture | Reina | Film | 4.0 | 57 |
| 2012 | Rock'n'Roll Housewives | Film | — | 57 | |
| 2012 | レベル7 | 犬山刑事 | Film | — | 57 |
| 2011 | CSI: Crime Scene Talks | Takeo Sone | TV | 7.2 | 56 |
| 2011 | My Way | Tatsuo's Father | Film | 7.9 | 56 |
| 2011 | A Taste of Honey | Tadashi Kirishima | TV | 8.5 | 56 |
| 2011 | Wasao | Shigeo | Film | 6.8 | 56 |
| 2011 | Hayabusa | Kawabuchi | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 2011 | HESOMORI -ヘソモリ- | Film | 4.5 | 56 | |
| 2010 | SPEC ~ First Blood | Yuichi Oshima | TV | 8.5 | 55 |
| 2010 | Left-Eye Detective | Yuya Fukuchi | TV | 5.5 | 55 |
| 2010 | Kyukei no Koya | TV | — | 55 | |
| 2010 | If Blessed | Film | — | 55 | |
| 2010 | Railways | Nobuo Ishikawa | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 2010 | Tenohira no memo | 折川孝之 | Film | — | 55 |
| 2009 | Clouds Over the Hill | 陸羯(カツ)南 | TV | 7.7 | 54 |
| 2009 | Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess | Michio Nishino | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 2009 | The Code | Detective 501 | Film | 6.2 | 54 |
| 2009 | Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster | Dr. Murakami | Film | 7.5 | 54 |
| 2009 | The Triumphant Return of General Rouge | Yuji Kakiya | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 2009 | Miyoko | Film | 6.0 | 54 | |
| 2008 | Persona | Film | 3.9 | 53 | |
| 2008 | 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End | Mâ-bô | Film | 6.7 | 53 |
| 2008 | 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End | Yan-bô | Film | 6.7 | 53 |
| 2008 | Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects | Himeself | Film | 8.5 | 53 |
| 2008 | The Glorious Team Batista | Yuji Kakiya | Film | 6.8 | 53 |
| 2008 | Life Improvement Club | Ueda | Film | — | 53 |
| 2008 | The Taste of Fish | Film | 7.0 | 53 | |
| 2008 | Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special | Film | — | 53 | |
| 2008 | The Yagyu Conspiracy | Film | — | 53 | |
| 2007 | Wives Make the World Go Round | TV | — | 52 | |
| 2007 | 王様の心臓〜リア王より〜 | 黒田数男 | TV | — | 52 |
| 2007 | Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007 | Kagaya Genemon | Film | 3.0 | 52 |
| 2006 | Kuitan | Shuji Igarashi | TV | 7.0 | 51 |
| 2006 | Angels with Broken Wings | Maekawa Takuro | TV | 4.8 | 51 |
| 2006 | Scum of Lawyers | TV | 6.8 | 51 | |
| 2006 | Satomi Hakkenden | Daiki Makuwari | TV | 7.3 | 51 |
| 2006 | Waiting in the Dark | Akihiro's Boss | Film | 8.4 | 51 |
| 2006 | PS-羅生門- 警視庁東都署 | TV | — | 51 | |
| 2006 | Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special | 半沢杜夫 | Film | — | 51 |
| 2006 | Vanished | Film | 6.1 | 51 | |
| 2006 | A Drop of Dew: Shoji Ueda's Photographs that Woke the World | Film | — | 51 | |
| 2005 | Detective Office 5: Another Story | Officer 501 | TV | — | 50 |
| 2005 | Detective Office 5: Another Story | 501 | TV | — | 50 |
| 2005 | Detective Office 5: Another Story | TV | — | 50 | |
| 2005 | Ultraman Max | Narration | TV | 9.2 | 50 |
| 2005 | Onna Keiji Mizuki: Kyoto Rakusai Sho Monogatari | Okita Tomohito | TV | — | 50 |
| 2005 | The Great Yokai War | "Mysterious" Editor | Film | 6.3 | 50 |
| 2005 | The Sun | The chamberlain | Film | 6.7 | 50 |
| 2005 | The Suspect: Muroi Shinji | 窪園 行雄 | Film | 6.4 | 50 |
| 2005 | All About My Dog | Uncle | Film | 6.3 | 50 |
| 2005 | Arthouse Ultraman | Narrator | Film | — | 50 |
| 2005 | Detective Office 5 | 501 | Film | — | 50 |
| 2005 | The Passed Scene | Kazuo Shimosaka | Film | — | 50 |
| 2004 | Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy | Narrator (voice) | TV | 10.0 | 49 |
| 2004 | Vampire Host | Tenran | TV | 1.5 | 49 |
| 2004 | Perfect Education 6 | Film | 4.8 | 49 | |
| 2004 | Dollhouse | Chief Tasaki | TV | 9.0 | 49 |
| 2004 | Infection | Kiyoshi Akai | Film | 6.4 | 49 |
| 2004 | Oh! My Zombie Mermaid | Yamaji | Film | 5.7 | 49 |
| 2004 | Takada Wataru Teki | Self | Film | — | 49 |
| 2003 | Sky High | TV | 5.0 | 48 | |
| 2003 | 警視庁・樋口警部補 | 氏家譲 | TV | — | 48 |
| 2003 | Kao | Osamu Minoda(箕田 修) | TV | 6.5 | 48 |
| 2003 | 朱夏~警视厅恐吓事件 | Film | — | 48 | |
| 2003 | An Autumn Afternoon | Koichi Hirayama | Film | — | 48 |
| 2003 | Dokushin 3 | TV | — | 48 | |
| 2003 | The Battling Angel | Ashida | Film | 7.0 | 48 |
| 2003 | The Negotiator | Lt. Ando | Film | 7.2 | 48 |
| 2003 | 樋口警部補 | TV | — | 48 | |
| 2003 | Cop Festival: New Beginning | Film | — | 48 | |
| 2003 | Time Limit | Film | 7.0 | 48 | |
| 2003 | Rika | Film | — | 48 | |
| 2002 | AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo | TV | 7.5 | 47 | |
| 2002 | Shangri-La | Kuwata | Film | 7.4 | 47 |
| 2002 | Aiki | Film | 4.8 | 47 | |
| 2002 | Kewaishi | Film | 8.5 | 47 | |
| 2002 | Picaresque | Film | — | 47 | |
| 2002 | しあわせのシッポ | 竹屋喜好 | TV | — | 47 |
| 2002 | Kamaitachi no Yoru | Film | 3.7 | 47 | |
| 2001 | Pokémon 4Ever | Vicious (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 46 |
| 2001 | Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack | Haruki Kadokura | Film | 7.5 | 46 |
| 2001 | Platonic Sex | Ishikawa | TV | 5.0 | 46 |
| 2001 | The Princess Blade | Kidokoro | Film | 5.6 | 46 |
| 2001 | 闇の脅迫者 江戸川乱歩の《陰獣》より | TV | — | 46 | |
| 2000 | Trick | TV | 7.2 | 45 | |
| 2000 | Food Fight | Miyazono Kyosaku | TV | 7.3 | 45 |
| 2000 | The Armchair Detective's Christmas Eve | Film | — | 45 | |
| 1999 | Godzilla 2000: Millennium | Prof. Shiro Miyasaka | Film | 6.9 | 44 |
| 1999 | Kimi to Ita Mirai no Tame ni ~ I'll be back | TV | 6.5 | 44 | |
| 1999 | Good News | TV | 10.0 | 44 | |
| 1999 | Karaoke | Film | 7.0 | 44 | |
| 1999 | Karaoke | Film | 7.0 | 44 | |
| 1999 | Karaoke | Film | 7.0 | 44 | |
| 1998 | Frozen Summer | Oikawa Kenichi | TV | — | 43 |
| 1998 | LOVE&PEACE | TV | — | 43 | |
| 1997 | Blue Bird | Hiromu Watanuki | TV | 5.8 | 42 |
| 1997 | Cat's Eye | Chief | Film | 4.0 | 42 |
| 1997 | The Glass Shoe | TV | — | 42 | |
| 1997 | The Defender | Wizard | Film | 4.0 | 42 |
| 1996 | Target | Film | 5.0 | 41 | |
| 1996 | The Trap | Masaru Kanno | Film | 6.8 | 41 |
| 1996 | Invisible Man | TV | 5.0 | 41 | |
| 1996 | Love and Lies | TV | — | 41 | |
| 1996 | グッドラック | TV | — | 41 | |
| 1996 | Spring and Chaos | Kenji Miyazawa | Film | 7.6 | 41 |
| 1995 | Sashow The Last Case | TV | 8.0 | 40 | |
| 1995 | Sharaku | Utamaro | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1995 | The Stairway to the Distant Past | Masaru Kanno | Film | 7.2 | 40 |
| 1995 | Endless Waltz | Film | 5.0 | 40 | |
| 1995 | Burai-Heiya | Tadao | Film | 9.0 | 40 |
| 1994 | Hana no Ran | Ashikaga Yoshimi | TV | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1994 | Rampo - Bewitching Women | Film | — | 39 | |
| 1994 | 長男の嫁 | TV | 6.0 | 39 | |
| 1994 | Watashi no Unmei | Katagiri Shuntaro | TV | — | 39 |
| 1994 | The Mystery of Rampo | Officer | Film | 7.2 | 39 |
| 1994 | The Most Terrible Time in My Life | Masaru Kanno | Film | 7.5 | 39 |
| 1994 | It's a Summer Vacation Everyday | Nariyuki Rinkaiji | Film | 10.0 | 39 |
| 1993 | The Anthropology of a Fight Scene | Film | — | 38 | |
| 1993 | Double Kitchen | TV | — | 38 | |
| 1993 | The Secret | Yamada Mario | TV | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1993 | The Room | The Dying Man | Film | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1993 | 誰にも言えない | TV | — | 38 | |
| 1993 | Haruka, Nostalgia | Tutor | Film | 6.5 | 38 |
| 1993 | The Brutal Insanity of Love | Tetsuro Muraki | Film | 3.9 | 38 |
| 1993 | My Beloved Ultraseven | Tetsuo Kinjo | Film | — | 38 |
| 1993 | Gensen-Kan Inn | Yoshiharu Tsuge | Film | 7.5 | 38 |
| 1993 | Rainbow Bridge | Film | 8.0 | 38 | |
| 1992 | Tokyo Elevator Girl | TV | — | 37 | |
| 1992 | Tokyo Elevator Girl | TV | — | 37 | |
| 1992 | Red Foliage | Shunji Muroi | Film | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1992 | Zutto Anata ga Sukidatta | TV | 7.0 | 37 | |
| 1992 | The Rocking Horsemen | Noritane Itoh | Film | 7.1 | 37 |
| 1992 | Garo Video 3: Hisago | Film | — | 37 | |
| 1992 | Sosuke Loses His Lover | Shinji Kitamura | Film | 3.7 | 37 |
| 1992 | Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki | Kurahashi | Film | 5.0 | 37 |
| 1992 | Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown | Film | 6.0 | 37 | |
| 1992 | Can You Collect It? | Film | — | 37 | |
| 1992 | Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo | Film | — | 37 | |
| 1992 | Swimming with Tears | Film | 6.8 | 37 | |
| 1992 | The Shadow Over Innsmouth | Takuji Hirata | Film | 6.2 | 37 |
| 1991 | Shimanto River | Film | 6.8 | 36 | |
| 1991 | Seven Days War 2 | Film | — | 36 | |
| 1991 | King's Playing With Fire | Film | — | 36 | |
| 1991 | Discontinuous Bombing Incident | Film | — | 36 | |
| 1991 | TVO | Detective Takatsuka | Film | 6.7 | 36 |
| 1990 | Tales of the Bizarre | TV | 7.8 | 35 | |
| 1990 | Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen | TV | 9.5 | 35 | |
| 1990 | Lady Battle Cop | Henry Ôba | Film | 7.4 | 35 |
| 1990 | The Legend of Zipang | Bunshichi | Film | 5.8 | 35 |
| 1990 | Ready to Shoot | Kikuchi | Film | 3.7 | 35 |
| 1990 | Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars | Correspondent Morita | Film | 8.0 | 35 |
| 1990 | Natsu no pēji | Kazuki | Film | — | 35 |
| 1989 | Lucky Sky Diamond | Katayama, a doctor | Film | 4.1 | 34 |
| 1989 | Violent Cop | Yoshinari | Film | 7.2 | 34 |
| 1989 | Four Days of Snow and Blood | Yasuhide Kurihara | Film | 7.3 | 34 |
| 1989 | Circus Boys | Hiroshi | Film | 7.3 | 34 |
| 1989 | Festival of Dreams | Film | 7.0 | 34 | |
| 1989 | The Dancer | Takashi Tanimura | Film | 6.4 | 34 |
| 1988 | Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis | Junichi Narumi | Film | 6.3 | 33 |
| 1988 | Tomorrow | Shoji Nakagawa | Film | 8.0 | 33 |
| 1988 | Seven Days War | Yashiro | Film | 6.3 | 33 |
| 1987 | The Heartbreak Yakuza | Film | 5.0 | 32 | |
| 1986 | To Sleep So as to Dream | Detective Uozuka | Film | 6.6 | 31 |
| 1985 | Female Detective Yuko Kasumi | TV | — | 30 |