
Asao Sano
Known for Acting · 118 credits
- Born
- 1925-08-13
- Died
- 2022-06-28
- Place of birth
- Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as
- Asao Sano · 佐野浅夫
Biography
Asao Sano was a Japanese actor. He is famous for playing the role of Tokugawa Mitsukuni on the television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon.
Known For
TV Shows (8)
Movies (110)

The Heart of Hiroshima
1966
as Iwai

May Love Be Restored
1980
as Sanzaemon Katagiri

The Burmese Harp
1956

Fires on the Plain
1959
as Soldier

The Song of the Cart
1959

Kagero-za
1981
as Head of a Hospital

Cops vs. Thugs
1975

Cruel Story of Youth
1960
as Inspector

The Sands of Kurobe
1968

Black River
1957
as Sakazaki

The Incident
1978
as Kihei Ueda

Carmen from Kawachi
1966
as Kanzo

The Thick-Walled Room
1956

Break Down that Wall
1959

The Last Samurai
1974

Blood End
1969

Deeper Than Blue
1973
as Shuzo Murakami

Fighting Elegy
1966

The Empty Table
1985

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1976

Teenage Yakuza
1962
as Noodle Shop Owner

Season of the Sun
1956

A Chain of Islands
1965
as Sasaki

Girl in the Glass
1960
as Otomo, Manager

Gambler's Dilemma
1969
as Kawada Shigekichi

The Cards Will Tell
1960

Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women
1975

I'll Never Cry!
1966

Apart from Life
1970
as Yuji

The Ghost of Iwojima
1959
How Sorrowful
1956

I Have the Sun in My Back
1963

The Blazing Valiant
1981
as Wahei Sakamoto

Birth of a Fighter
1967
as Sohei Marutani

Black Strait
1964
as Ryusaku

Jungle Block
1960
as Nakatsuka

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963
as Father Tajima

Permanent Blue
1976

Miniature
1953

A Warm Misty Night
1967
as Miyatake, detective

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
1965

Hana to musume to shiroi michi
1961

Women of Tokyo
1961
as Bartender

I Want to Be a Shellfish
1958

Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950

The Long Death
1964

Towering Waves
1960

The Man with a Shotgun
1961
as Kuronuma

Sun and Stars
1962

Shadow Hunters
1992

A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
1972

Tales of Ginza
1955
as Jeep no Masa

Covered Wagon
1960

Abare chōhan
1970

The Dragon of Macao
1965

I Hate But Love
1962

Quick Draw Sanshiro
1962

The School Cap
1963

The Incorrigible
1963
as Dr. Okumura

The Samurai of Edo
1955

The Guys Who Put Money on Me
1962
as Takei

Isseki Nicho
1961
as Fukayama

Fearless Comrades
1966

Teenage Wolf
1960

The Aesthetic Salon Murders 2
1998
as Detective Kato

The Awakening
1957

Gone in the Rain
1963
as Sayama

Gambler in the Sea
1961

The Diary of a Police Officer: The Slammer Is Full
1961
My Hobo
1962

The Night is Mine
1958

Kusa wo karu musume
1961

Beauty Wandering Story
1977

Blood Is Dry
1960

Flesh Smuggling
1956

Mr. Mutsugoro’s Happy Marriage
1974

The Witness' Chair
1965
as Chief Inspector of the Tokushima City Police Department

Gambling is My Destiny
1965

Gun Demon Without Form
1964

The Girl I Abandoned
1969

High-School Outcasts
1970
as Vice-principal Sugiyama

Japan Beauty Story
1974
as Nikichi

The juvenile
1955

A Torrent of Life
1962

何もかも狂ってやがる
1962

Call My Black Dice
1964

Passion and Rifle Bullets
1955

Immoral Lecture
1959

Black Dice
1962

Ore wa toppu-yada: kao no nai bijo
1961

Streetlights
1957

Drunkard's Paradise
1962

Ishigassen
1955

Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
1965
Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
1980
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
1956

Dawn of a Canvas
1961

Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki
1963

A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
1964

Keiji monogatari jazu wa kurutchai nē
1961

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 11 - The Ghost Story of Decapitation
1971

The Sea of Eden
1963

俺はトップ屋だ 第二の顔
1961

The Ninja Vixens II: Veil of Illusions
1990

The Accident
1975
小父さんありがとう
1961

Hana no unga
1956

Yakuza sensei
1960

The Debt of Blood
1967
The Fukugawa Street Attack Murders
1983
About Asao Sano
Asao Sano was a Japanese actor. He is famous for playing the role of Tokugawa Mitsukuni on the television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon. With 118 credits spanning from 1950 to 2004, Asao Sano has appeared in 110 films and 8 TV shows.
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Most Popular Asao Sano Movies
- The Heart of Hiroshima (1966) — as Iwai
- May Love Be Restored (1980) — as Sanzaemon Katagiri
- The Burmese Harp (1956)
- Fires on the Plain (1959) — as Soldier
- The Song of the Cart (1959)
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