Asao Sano
Date of birth: 1925-08-13
Place of birth: Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
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.
Movie Credits
Jungle Block
1960-06-15
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon
Kusa wo karu musume
1961-10-25
1961 Japanese movie
Covered Wagon
1960-10-22
A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, t
The Diary of a Police Officer: The Slammer Is Full
1961-03-27
A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of ei
Black Dice
1962-03-25
1962 Japanese movie
I Hate But Love
1962-07-09
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced To
何もかも狂ってやがる
1962-04-18
1962 Japanese movie
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
1956-01-29
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Toka
Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
1965-05-15
1965 Nikkatsu youth film.
Break Down that Wall
1959-06-23
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Cruel Story of Youth
1960-06-03
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for
Black River
1957-10-23
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land
Apart from Life
1970-01-30
A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
A Torrent of Life
1962-05-01
1962 Japanese movie
The Thick-Walled Room
1956-10-31
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim
Flesh Smuggling
1956-10-09
A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sai
My Hobo
1962-11-23
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the N
Birth of a Fighter
1967-02-04
A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
Abare chōhan
1970-03-07
Girl in the Glass
1960-11-09
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on
Gun Demon Without Form
1964-03-04
A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pu
Sun and Stars
1962-07-01
It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tal
Shadow Hunters
1992-04-08
In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, t
Streetlights
1957-02-13
A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropp
Quick Draw Sanshiro
1962-06-03
Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangster
Women of Tokyo
1961-03-01
Teenage Wolf
1960-03-02
In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a y
The Night is Mine
1958-07-13
Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. How
Japan Beauty Story
1974-07-13
Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women
1975-07-12
Beauty Wandering Story
1977-03-19
Fearless Comrades
1966-10-08
The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but deci
Black Strait
1964-12-31
Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new lif
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 11 - The Ghost Story of Decapitation
1971-09-19
Eleventh film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
1980-09-25
The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.
The Sands of Kurobe
1968-03-01
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th
The Blazing Valiant
1981-12-19
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950-06-15
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese stu
How Sorrowful
1956-09-07
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to
I Have the Sun in My Back
1963-04-07
Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from
The Ghost of Iwojima
1959-10-21
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper rep
The Long Death
1964-04-12
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the ba
Fires on the Plain
1959-11-03
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp
Season of the Sun
1956-05-17
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking
Hana to musume to shiroi michi
1961-03-06
One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963-01-27
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring crimi
Gone in the Rain
1963-03-17
Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They
The Incident
1978-06-03
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest
Teenage Yakuza
1962-06-20
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring c
The Last Samurai
1974-09-20
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many yea
I'll Never Cry!
1966-10-29
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a w
Immoral Lecture
1959-01-09
Blood Is Dry
1960-10-09
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive
Cops vs. Thugs
1975-04-26
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their politic
Deeper Than Blue
1973-02-10
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging stru
High-School Outcasts
1970-12-16
Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes
Drunkard's Paradise
1962-02-04
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving beh
The Man with a Shotgun
1961-06-03
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter
Permanent Blue
1976-09-23
In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her
A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
1972-09-06
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitu
The Aesthetic Salon Murders 2
1998-12-26
Iwatsuki Reiko, a writer for a weekly magazine goes on a trip to Amakusa, Kyushu with Yukitake Asami
Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
1965-11-20
Blood End
1969-11-15
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time
Dawn of a Canvas
1961-07-01
The Dragon of Macao
1965-12-18
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollar
The Burmese Harp
1956-01-21
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himse
May Love Be Restored
1980-04-29
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
A Chain of Islands
1965-05-26
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how
The School Cap
1963-12-15
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
1962-12-09
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energeti
A Warm Misty Night
1967-03-11
When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his belov
The Heart of Hiroshima
1966-09-17
One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking a
Miniature
1953-04-01
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha
Fighting Elegy
1966-11-09
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelin
Tales of Ginza
1955-09-14
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband
Passion and Rifle Bullets
1955-09-21
Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who
Kagero-za
1981-08-21
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
The Girl I Abandoned
1969-09-03
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president.
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1976-07-23
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mits
A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
1964-12-19
Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.
Carmen from Kawachi
1966-02-07
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model s
The Empty Table
1985-11-01
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist k
Gambler's Dilemma
1969-09-27
The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her fa
Isseki Nicho
1961-02-25
The Incorrigible
1963-09-21
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as To
I Want to Be a Shellfish
1958-10-31
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Sh
The Song of the Cart
1959-02-11
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
Gambler in the Sea
1961-07-01
Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching de
Keiji monogatari jazu wa kurutchai nē
1961-01-09
1961 Japanese movie
The Samurai of Edo
1955-10-23
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f
The juvenile
1955-10-18
A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
Gambling is My Destiny
1965-04-04
Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends,
The Cards Will Tell
1960-01-16
A 1960 crime film
The Awakening
1957-12-01
A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's
Ishigassen
1955-12-13
Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villag
Mutsugorō no kekkon-ki
1974-04-27
1974 Japanese movie
Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki
1963-04-14
Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.
Ore wa toppu-yada: kao no nai bijo
1961-02-08
1961 Japanese movie
俺はトップ屋だ 第二の顔
1961-02-22
1961 Japanese movie
The Sea of Eden
1963-08-31
High school student Tomoe's initial apprehension towards Nanjo, a new handsome teacher in her school
Witness Chair
1965-05-15
Murder case and trial.
The Fukugawa Street Attack Murders
1983-07-25
TV movie based on the 1981 Fukugawa shopping street murders.