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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 18.535 |
| Birthday | 1925-08-13 |
| Place of Birth | Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 佐野浅夫, |
1956
How Sorrowful
0/0
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...
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How Sorrowful
1960
Cruel Story of Youth
6.7/54
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
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Cruel Story of Youth
1970
Apart from Life
5.8/4
A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
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Apart from Life
1956
The Thick-Walled Room
7.1/16
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a wh...
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The Thick-Walled Room
1957
Black River
6.9/29
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell t...
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Black River
1981
The Blazing Valiant
5/1
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout...
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The Blazing Valiant
1950
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
7/1
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The fi...
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1964
The Long Death
0/0
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amoun...
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The Long Death
1959
The Ghost of Iwojima
0/0
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Ji...
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The Ghost of Iwojima
1959
Fires on the Plain
7.598/107
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Le...
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Fires on the Plain
1956
Season of the Sun
6/4
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often th...
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Season of the Sun
1961
Hana to musume to shiroi michi
0/0
One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
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Hana to musume to shiroi michi
1963
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
6.2/25
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military mu...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963
Gone in the Rain
0/0
Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from t...
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Gone in the Rain
1966
I'll Never Cry!
0/0
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in...
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I'll Never Cry!
1978
The Incident
6.3/3
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shi...
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The Incident
1974
The Last Samurai
7.8/18
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child....
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The Last Samurai
1962
Teenage Yakuza
7.2/5
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
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Teenage Yakuza
1960
Blood Is Dry
6.5/11
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own ad...
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Blood Is Dry
1959
Immoral Lecture
0/0
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Immoral Lecture
1975
Cops vs. Thugs
6.217/23
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the ac...
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Cops vs. Thugs
1973
Deeper Than Blue
0/0
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her...
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Deeper Than Blue
1970
High-School Outcasts
0/0
Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a hig...
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High-School Outcasts
1962
Drunkard's Paradise
0/0
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses...
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Drunkard's Paradise
1961
The Man with a Shotgun
6.6/14
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of troubl...
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The Man with a Shotgun
1976
Permanent Blue
0/0
In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he soo...
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Permanent Blue
1972
A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
7/1
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.
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A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
1998
The Aesthetic Salon Murders 2
0/0
Iwatsuki Reiko, a writer for a weekly magazine goes on a trip to Amakusa, Kyushu with Yukitake Asami, the president of a company. Yukitake informs Iwa...
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The Aesthetic Salon Murders 2
1965
Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
0/0
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Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
1969
Blood End
6.2/5
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a lea...
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Blood End
1961
Dawn of a Canvas
0/0
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Dawn of a Canvas
1965
The Dragon of Macao
8/3
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong t...
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The Dragon of Macao
1956
The Burmese Harp
7.9/148
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...
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The Burmese Harp
1980
May Love Be Restored
0/0
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
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May Love Be Restored
1965
A Chain of Islands
6.4/5
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncov...
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A Chain of Islands
1963
The School Cap
0/0
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...
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The School Cap
1962
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
5/1
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action...
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The Guys Who Put Money on Me
1966
The Heart of Hiroshima
0/0
One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking all the records that she was carrying. The two conn...
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The Heart of Hiroshima
1967
A Warm Misty Night
0/0
When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously...
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A Warm Misty Night
1953
Miniature
8/3
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope i...
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Miniature
1955
Tales of Ginza
6.85/10
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who...
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Tales of Ginza
1966
Fighting Elegy
7/33
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...
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Fighting Elegy
1981
Kagero-za
6.5/23
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
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Kagero-za
1955
Passion and Rifle Bullets
0/0
Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.
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Passion and Rifle Bullets
1969
The Girl I Abandoned
0/0
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he reme...
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The Girl I Abandoned
1976
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
9.5/2
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1966
Carmen from Kawachi
6.8/9
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a...
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Carmen from Kawachi
1964
A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
0/0
Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.
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A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
1985
The Empty Table
5.3/3
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths. Alth...
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The Empty Table
1969
Gambler's Dilemma
0/0
The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.
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Gambler's Dilemma
1961
Isseki Nicho
0/0
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Isseki Nicho
1963
The Incorrigible
6.3/3
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
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The Incorrigible
1958
I Want to Be a Shellfish
0/0
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husba...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
1959
The Song of the Cart
6.6/9
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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The Song of the Cart
1960
Jungle Block
7/1
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a resu...
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Jungle Block
1983
Meiso chizu
0/0
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Meiso chizu
1962
I Hate But Love
6.8/11
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote vill...
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I Hate But Love
1956
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
0/0
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name...
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Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
1959
Break Down that Wall
0/0
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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Break Down that Wall
1956
Flesh Smuggling
0/0
A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to uncover...
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Flesh Smuggling
1992
Shadow Hunters
0/0
In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, the shogunate sent its shadow spies to each clan, w...
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Shadow Hunters
1957
Streetlights
0/0
A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.
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Streetlights
1962
Quick Draw Sanshiro
0/0
Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!
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Quick Draw Sanshiro
1961
Women of Tokyo
0/0
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Women of Tokyo
1980
Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
0/0
The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.
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Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
1961
Kusa wo karu musume
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Kusa wo karu musume
1960
Covered Wagon
0/0
A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's majo...
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Covered Wagon
1961
The Diary of a Police Officer: The piggy bank is full
0/0
A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases, ran...
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The Diary of a Police Officer: The piggy bank is full
1962
Black Dice
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Black Dice
1962
何もかも狂ってやがる
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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何もかも狂ってやがる
1965
Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
0/0
1965 Nikkatsu youth film.
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Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
1962
A Torrent of Life
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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A Torrent of Life
1962
My Hobo
0/0
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who beco...
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My Hobo
1967
Birth of a Fighter
7/1
A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
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Birth of a Fighter
1970
あばれ丁半
0/0
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あばれ丁半
1960
Girl in the Glass
0/0
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...
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Girl in the Glass
1964
Gun Demon Without Form
0/0
A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from K...
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Gun Demon Without Form
1962
Sun and stars
0/0
It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and pass...
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Sun and stars
1960
Teenage Wolf
0/0
In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which di...
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Teenage Wolf
1958
The Night is mine
0/0
Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a skirm...
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The Night is mine
1974
Japan Beauty Story
0/0
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Japan Beauty Story
1975
Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women
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Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women
1977
Beauty Wandering Story
0/0
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Beauty Wandering Story
1966
Fearless Comrades
0/0
The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal d...
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Fearless Comrades
1964
Black Strait
0/0
Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of...
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Black Strait
1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 11 - The Ghost Story of Decapitation
0/0
Eleventh film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 11 - The Ghost Story of Decapitation
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
6.2/5
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe
1963
I Have the Sun in My Back
0/0
Shigeru, a serious young man who works as a glass cleaner, has an older brother Kenzo, who has returned from prison. Kenzo was determined to become co...
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