Date of birth: 1948-06-22
Place of birth: Ichinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Takaşi Sasano, Takasi Sasano, Takaschi Sasano

Born 1948 in Hyogo, Japan, Takashi Sasano (笹野高史) is a Japanese actor.

2009-07-27
Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make a

2021-03-22
A corpse of a clown is found in a park. Detective Shirataka Amane of Musashino Higashi Police Statio

2006-12-01
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in

1993-07-15
Shizuya, who appeared on the first anniversary of Ken Sakamoto's death, the fourth Kishu-gumi. He ag

2001-02-14
Kishu-gumi and the Hong Kong mafia will die in a trap set up?! Can Shizuya save this desperate situa

1996-12-03
"I can't live for the Shinsen-gumi." Shizuya wanders between the yakuza and his love for Akino. What

1996-10-28
Shouldn't gangsters love stubborn people? To protect true love, the Shinsen-gumi gather at night in

2008-01-26
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige

2003-01-18
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They

2010-02-20

2007-11-10
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip acros

2017-08-19
Members of SWORD win against Wangan Rengogun, which is led by Kohaku. The city becomes peaceful agai

2023-03-31
Set two years after the drama series "Nemesis," Naoki Kazama works for Nemesis Detective Agency and

2008-09-13
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown

2009-05-23
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching

2023-06-16
Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting be

1988-08-13
A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to pro

2016-09-17
A schoolboy has a crush on his pretty class-mate Keiko on the inland island of Awaji. He figures her

1999-07-03
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grad

2010-04-03
Yuukai Rhapsody follows a man who is stuck in a rut, no personal life and no cash lead him to the dr

2007-10-27
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovere

2016-06-18
After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspect

2003-04-26
Daisuke and his girlfriend have failed at selling a smelly health drink named Akajiru in Tokyo, amas

2011-03-05
Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller

1990-11-17
A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see

1984-10-10
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges a

2009-06-20
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

2019-09-29

1993-11-06
A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for ad

2005-10-22
A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The

2013-12-31
Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a

2022-02-04
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the g

2023-09-29
Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and

2006-05-20
Biopic of painter Tanaka Isson

2006-07-01
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing n

2012-09-15
A chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to a

2015-03-21
The evil organization Shocker alters history by sending their newest creation, Kamen Rider 3, to def

2023-10-12
Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out t

1988-11-26
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, j

2008-09-20
Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his

2000-06-11
Shizuya thought that he had won the deadly battle with Kaifu, the fifth generation of Kishu-gumi, an

2001-07-14
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her

2005-01-29
Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is be

2014-08-29
Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her

1991-07-06

2012-03-24
Real estate company employee Komachi and steelworks heir Kodama are both train aficionados. Their ho

2014-03-08
Two feuding eccentric families with super powers clash when their young sons confront each other aft

2011-10-15
A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fat

2010-01-10
The story is based on the bestselling autobiography of 25-year-old Rie Saito, who became a number-on

2007-06-23
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a

2010-02-11
¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and

2023-02-23
Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage

2006-10-21
Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.

2009-01-10
In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen

1995-04-22
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When

2014-05-24
Haruo has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo al

2023-01-06
A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike (Kiichi Nakai) and potter Sasuke (Kuranosu

1989-11-18
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and

2010-07-17
Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spe

2004-08-21
Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces

1996-12-28
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushi

2001-08-18
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his

1999-02-17
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be

1992-05-30
Yasuo Furuhata directs this romantic yakuza flick based on a book by popular romance novelist Tomiko

2011-08-02
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with

1991-04-05
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest ho

1989-11-18
Ryoko, a free-spirited 23-year-old woman, quits her job after being caught having an affair with a c

2011-03-19
Tobio Kurosawa (Ryuta Sato), who has been part of a manzai (stand up comedy) duo for ten years, find

2010-01-30
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud

2022-08-27
A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum

2008-09-26
In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government

1989-04-15
Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeas

2015-03-25
Ichiro Numata (Hiroaki Murakami) is the chief editor of a publishing company. He suddenly falls unco

2012-04-28
The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One da

1999-11-06
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into

2009-12-26

2006-08-05
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting marri

1998-05-23
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married

2018-06-09
After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a maj

2011-05-28
National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & As

2015-08-08
The Last Ninja Yoshitaka Igasaki sends his disciples the Ninningers on a special mission over summer
2000-10-14
"Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening d

2014-04-26
In ancient Rome, bathhouse architect Lucius (Hiroshi Abe) becomes famous with designing the original

2013-02-09
In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home

2000-11-11
Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old

2004-06-05
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a ru

2007-10-27
Police superintendent Makishima suffered a demotion transfer after he failed to capture the suspect

2004-01-10
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a ta

2016-01-23
The Ninningers come across a new enemy, Dark Doctor Mavro, a remnant of the Shadow Line, who created

2015-12-05
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this

2011-12-17
Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his

2017-05-20
In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his fath

2016-02-27
Genzo is a monk on his way to Tianzhu (early East Asian name for India). Along the way, he happens t

2015-11-21
In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institu

2010-10-09
Takahiko Tokito is a doctor at a big medical corporation. He has decided to run away with his lover,

1988-09-15
A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. Ho

2014-01-25
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discover

1997-09-06
Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposi

1989-12-27
Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woma

2014-11-01
Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are

1993-12-25
Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-sa

2012-11-22
The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman wor

2016-10-01
At the end of the 21st century, the world is plagued by a mysterious virus and unusual weather. Geni

2016-01-16
Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytel

1983-10-29
Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy mone

2017-09-06
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a

2016-11-11
When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Remini

2008-06-07
A set of twins -- one a hard-working student and the other a drifter -- team up with a dropout to un

1996-04-13
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun

1991-12-23
Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew

1992-12-26
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his

1998-08-08
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surro

1997-12-27
Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, h

2017-04-20
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Fa

2018-05-25
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one aftern

2016-03-16
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what

1999-01-15
Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprentic

1987-06-06
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by

1987-09-12
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engul

1992-01-24
Part two of twelve.

2018-06-15
A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight

2015-01-11
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".

2008-07-19
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and

2019-03-21
Three murder cases take place in Tokyo. Numbers are left at the murder scenes, possibly hinting at w

2013-12-14
In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attrac

2015-09-20
A young woman is discovered strangled to death at the boat pier in Tokyo. There are no signs of dist

2000-01-03
This film is the memoirs of Takasugi Shinsaku about the life of his great teacher Yoshida Shoin. Yos

2009-01-24

1995-04-15
The movie version of Juukou B-Fighter premiered in Japan on April 15, 1995 at the Toei Super Hero Fa

2017-01-21
Tatsuhiko relocates from Shinjuku to Yokohama, where he comes into conflict with Masaki Taki, CEO of

2018-06-25
The Akazas are a blue-collar family living in a working-class neighborhood of Tokyo. Older brother I

2013-01-12
Tamiko (Ayumi Ito) lives happily with her husband Hideaki (Sho Aoyagi) and step-daughter Kotoyo (Haz

2012-05-12
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city

2004-10-30
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home

2012-12-22
Nobuko is a plain, unattractive woman with disheveled hair, and is hired as a housekeeper in the Ina

2011-11-05
Shunsuke Honma is a detective from the #1 investigation team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depart

1992-04-25
The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.

2019-11-22
Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Ha

2014-08-25
There was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the orpha

2013-06-08
Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown

2018-06-18
Hitsujido Honpo, an established Japanese-style sweets company known for its traditional flavours and

2007-09-08
Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up durin

1988-12-24
Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo o

1996-08-10
When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love wi

1989-12-27
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced

2020-07-31
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time

1995-11-23
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

2020-10-16
It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife

2019-11-30
Koyama Haruka was an office worker who lived an unremarkable life, but one day she comes across a la

1986-12-20
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that

1985-12-28
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), run

1987-12-26
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly tu

1987-08-15
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune)

1988-12-24
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is a

1989-08-05
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vie

2010-10-04

1991-05-31
Part one of a twelve part direct to video film series. Based on the comic by Tatsuo Nitta.

2008-11-15
A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, d

2015-03-29
Five flashy Roidmudes seem to be causing a “thick air” event, and when Shinnosuke goes to investigat

2019-09-13
Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowi

1998-10-17
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technic

1990-05-26
Kyosuke Kozu (Masaomi Kondo), a university professor and a famous detective, is a big magic lover. H

2008-02-02
Chief Iizuka, who works at the Cultural Center, misunderstands two chorus groups with similar names

2009-01-01
Jiro (Jiro Sato) is a 32-year-old man who doesn't have a job. He lives at his parents' house and doe

2001-11-09
Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited

2020-11-06
Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibi

2012-03-17
The mysterious life of Princess Nouhime.

1995-09-01
#13 in the series, after the Special Movie.

2001-11-09
#37 in the series, following "Yakuza Finance."

2008-03-15
One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act

2021-11-03
A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents,

2018-02-23

2007-10-01
Junji, the protagonist of FM89.3MHz, must become the principal of a nursery school in Kabukicho afte

2020-12-26
A four-piece omnibus-style special drama produced by the production staff of "The Really Scary Story

2023-11-17
In the heart of Osaka's old neighborhoods lies a run-down apartment building known as "Copo." Its th

2009-12-11
A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)

2025-02-21

2012-03-10

1996-10-19
The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.

2017-12-02

2010-08-07

2025-03-08

2009-07-19
Genjuro’s crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his home

2025-09-26
Yamato submerges in the cold, deep northern seas with Mozart's music echoing. The nuclear-powered su

2021-11-09

2025-07-04
Ranmaru is a 450-year-old vampire who works in a bathhouse. As a vampire he is particularly picky

2015-06-27

2025-11-21
One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tok

1994-12-23
Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later

2012-04-28
The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One da

2024-03-23

2007-05-25
Janitor Hiroharu Nonoyama (Ken Watanabe) discovers a coat filled with cash while working. The coat b

1995-12-23
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to

1986-08-02
Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio the