Shiro Sano
Acting
Biography
Shiro Sano (佐野 史郎, Sano Shirō, born 4 March 1955) is a Japanese actor.
Born: March 4, 1955
Place of Birth: Yamanashi, Japan
Known For
Good News
Kurosawa, who works for a film production company, meets Akiko, a divorcee and single mother, who works at a publishing house. Through the efforts of Akiko's son, Naoya, they fall in love and decide to get married. The good news continues with Kurosawa becoming an assistant producer, and Akiko's parents offering to make the down-payment for their apartment. However, things start to go wrong when the ever-generous and sometimes naive Kurosawa helps a respected friend by co-signing on his financial obligation. A warm and occasionally wacky comedy for the whole family.
Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy
Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy is a 2004 production, and the 19th installment in the Ultra Series that was broadcast in Japan in 2004. It is a sequel to Ultra Q, the first of the Ultra Series. It retains the same swirling effect for the titlecard, but with the words "Dark Fantasy" added underneath, the title also remains black and white.
Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira
Dandarin Rules
Labor Standards Inspectors... are you aware of their existence? For the sake of the 52 million actively employed people across the nation, the government had set up this body to help ensure that there is safety at workplaces. Danda Rin, is an example of a very diligent and strict inspector. She doesn't compromise when it comes to the rules. The story opens with the transfer of Danda Rin to the new Labor Standards Inspector office. "She had caused her boss at her ex-office to go bald!!" is the rumor that accompanies her to her new office. Danda Rin is someone who doesn't do things in half measures, which is totally unlike the laidback male colleagues in the office. "Unpaid overtime", "Managers in name only", "Power harassment by managers"; these are all the things she fights against!
Godzilla's Leading Ladies
An NHK documentary about the talented actresses who have portrayed the beautiful, intelligent and resourceful heroines of the long running series. Features interviews with Kumi Mizuno, Keiko Mari, Yumiko Shaku, and Megumi Odaka. Also featured are never before seen 8mm home movies shot by producer Tomoyuki Tanaka on the sets of classic Toho films.
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
The Ghost Writer's Wife
In Meiji-era Matsue, a fallen samurai’s daughter and a lonely foreign teacher connect through ghost stories and an unlikely friendship.
Ultraman Max
Ultraman Max was an Ultraman TV series which started airing on 7 July 2005, and produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd.. The show tried to return to the true formula of new monsters every week and being a fast paced show like previous series with the exception of Ultraman Nexus. The show is full of homages to past series by having three of the original cast members from the first Ultraman series being featured in an episode, updated versions of classic monsters like Red King, Eleking and Pigmon among others. One unusual episode revolves around the filming of the 1964 program Ultra Q which was the predecessor to the first Ultraman show in 1966. Two actors from that show appear as themselves.
SICK'S Jo no Shou
Again we follow a pair of police detectives as they track down offenders with special abilities (SPEC). However, since the events of the previous chapters, MPD Public Security's special division for solving cases involving unknown circumstances (Mishou) no longer exists. Instead, there is now an exclusive special division (Tokumu) as part of the Cabinet Information Research Office that only deals with cases involving SPEC holders led by Nonomura Koutarou's younger brother, Nonomura Koujirou
Kumokiri Nizaemon
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money with skillful techniques. They only target the very wealthy and never kill or injure people. They appear with the clouds and disappear like the mist. On the night that the beautiful Ochiyo is to become the bride of a dry goods dealer, a large amount of money hidden inside the shop is stolen. The gang disappears without injuring anyone. It was a two-year plan to marry Ochiyo off so that she could bring them in. The leader of this gang is Kumokiri Nizaemon, the greatest bandit of all time. He keeps a rein on his highly-skilled and notorious followers Nanabake no Ochiyo, Kinezumi no Kichigoro, Subashiri no Kumagoro, Ingakozo Rokunosuke and others.
Filmography
as Uonuma
as Eto Yasumune
as Sugimoto
as Katsuji Fudo
as Cabinet Minister Kirigaya
as Jung Hak-sun
as Principal Nagai
as Satoshi
as Masato Shirabishi
as Hisashi Nakagawa
as Takeshi Mizuguchi
as Kazuo Kudo
as Nobuo Asanuma
as Enoshita Chikara
as Himself
as Azuma
as Genji Onitsuka
as Sōjurō Takatsuki
as Mitsunori Yagawa
as Prime Minister
as Chikara Enoshita
as Hyuga
as Dr. Saito
as Kamo Keiichiro
as Mizutani Itsuro
as Seiji Terauchi
as Taizo Yoshida
as Taizou Yoshida
as Tsutomu Tawaraya
as Yuichi Oshima
as Shuji Kishikawa
as Ii Naosuke
as Tokugawa’s vassal
as Tadao
as Akio Nakajima
as Michihiko Zaizen / Dr. Pac-Man
as Tatsuo Ishii
as Ryutaro Suganuma
as Masahiko Todo（藤堂 正彦）
as Yasuo Soda
as Yuzo Shindo
as Zeshin
as Muneo Yamaoka
as Endo Yuji
as Konomi Mitsuru
as Machida Yuzo
as Satoru
as Kiyoharu Ikezawa
as Tankuro Hinode
as Taizan Kitamura
as Tetsuji Hiramatsu
as Shigeo Manabe
as Morikazu kadota
as Reina
as Yamashita
as 이시이 테츠오
as 犬山刑事
as Toru
as Hiramatsu Tetsuji
as Ujiie Kiyoshi
as Ashurada (voice) / Weeval
as Tatsuo's Father
as Tadashi Kirishima
as Kawabuchi
as Takeo Sone
as Shigeo
as Yuichi Oshima
as Nobuo Ishikawa
as Yuya Fukuchi
as 陸羯（カツ）南
as Michio Nishino
as Detective 501
as Yuji Kakiya
as Dr. Murakami
as Ueda
as Yuji Kakiya
as Kagaya Genemon
as 黒田数男
as Akihiro's Boss
as Maekawa Takuro
as Shuji Igarashi
as Daiki Makuwari
as 501
as Okita Tomohito
as Officer 501
as 窪園 行雄
as "Mysterious" Editor
as Narration
as Narrator
as Kazuo Shimosaka
as Uncle
as The chamberlain
as Kiyoshi Akai
as Narrator (voice)
as Tenran
as Self
as Chief Tasaki
as Yamaji
as Lt. Ando
as Osamu Minoda（箕田 修）
as Koichi Hirayama
as Kuwata
as 竹屋喜好
as Haruki Kadokura
as Kidokoro
as Ishikawa
as Vicious (voice)
as Miyazono Kyosaku
as Prof. Shiro Miyasaka
as Oikawa Kenichi
as Hiromu Watanuki
as Chief
as Wizard
as Kenji Miyazawa
as Masaru Kanno
as Utamaro
as Tadao
as Officer
as Masaru Kanno
as Katagiri Shuntaro
as Nariyuki Rinkaiji
as Ashikaga Yoshimi
as Masaru Kanno
as Yoshiharu Tsuge
as Yamada Mario
as Tetsuro Muraki
as Tutor
as Tetsuo Kinjo
as Noritane Itoh
as Shinji Kitamura
as Takuji Hirata
as Kurahashi
as Shunji Muroi
as The Dying Man
as Detective Takatsuka
as Kikuchi
as Henry Ôba
as Correspondent Morita
as Kazuki
as Bunshichi
as Hiroshi
as Takashi Tanimura
as Yoshinari
as Yasuhide Kurihara
as Katayama, a doctor
as Shoji Nakagawa
as Yashiro
as Junichi Narumi
as Detective Uozuka