Asao Sano

Asao Sano

August 13, 1925 · 101 years old

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

7 titles
1
Fires on the Plain

Fires on the Plain

1959 · 1h 48m · Movie

In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation.

7.9
2
Black River

Black River

1957 · 1h 54m · Movie

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

7.2
3
Kagero-za

Kagero-za

1981 · 2h 19m · Movie

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

6.9
4
The Man with a Shotgun

The Man with a Shotgun

1961 · 1h 24m · Movie

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 trouble surrounding the town's mill.

6.3
5
Chi wa kawaiteru

Chi wa kawaiteru

1960 · 1h 27m · Movie

An insurance company employee threatens suicide after a massive layoff is announced by the management. The company takes advantage of his threat by turning it into an advertising campaign.

7.1
6
Season of the Sun

Season of the Sun

1956 · 1h 29m · Movie

The story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen...

6.5