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