Takashi Sasano

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
June 22, 1948 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Ichinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
Popular Genres
Drama Action Comedy
Career Span
1983 – Present

Takashi Sasano

1 win
75 nominations
1 Oscar
184 credits

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

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Personal Info

Born
Jun 22, 1948
From
Ichinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
Known For
Acting
Career
1983 – Present

Award Recognition

1
Win
75
Nominations
1
Oscar

Complete Filmography

2025

僕らは人生で一回だけ魔法が使える as Grandpa Tetsu
Flower Curtain
The Silent Service Hokkyokukai Daikaisen as Toshio Takegami

2023

Immersion Award
Jigen Daisuke as Yamaki
The Silent Service
We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams as Morio Koide
Nemesis the Movie: Mystery of Golden Spiral as Enokido Rikimaru
Yudo: The Way of the Bath as Yutaka Horii
Corpo a Corpo as Miyaji Yuzo

2022

What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? as Jiro Zaizen Award
Mugonkan as Izawa Tamisuke

2021

Riverside Mukolitta
Hakutaka Shirataka Amane no Investigation File

2020

Wife of a Spy as Doctor Nozaki Award
Labyrinth of Cinema as Kaya's Boss / Conductor / Sokoban A
The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono
4 Mysterious Stories as Abbot

2019

Masquerade Hotel as Koichi Ono Award
The 47 Rōnin in Debt as Yozaemon Ochiai
They Say Nothing Stays the Same as Ushi's customer
Haruka's Pottery as Tojin Sakaki
Aging Police / Resurrection Special

2018

Recall as Naokichi Miyashiro Award
Life in Overtime as NINOMIYA Isamu
What a Wonderful Family! 3 as Custodian
天才を育てた女房～世界が認めた数学者と妻の愛～
68-Year-Old New Employee as colleague
Older Brother, Younger Sister as Shinobu Akaza

2017

HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky as Ryuhei Ueno Award
Before We Vanish as Shinagawa Award
Shinjuku Swan II as Sunako Award
What a Wonderful Family! 2
Tatara Samurai as Sobee
小さな橋で

2016

Creepy as Tanimoto Award
Shuriken Sentai Ninninger vs. ToQger the Movie: Ninjas in Wonderland as Yoshitaka Igasaki Award
Cutie Honey: Tears
What a Wonderful Family! as Custodian
Chinyuki as Babaa
Golden Orchestra as Hidetaro Nonomura
Something Like, Something Like It as barbershop owner
Sento: The Bathhouse as Sasanoki Masanobu (Old)

2015

125 Years Memory as Mayor Sato Award
Super Hero Wars GP: Kamen Rider #3 as Yoshitaka Igasaki
Shuriken Sentai Ninninger vs. Kamen Rider Drive: Spring Break Combined Special as Yoshitaka Igasaki
Shuriken Sentai Ninninger The Movie: The Dinosaur Lord's Splendid Ninja Scroll! as Yoshitaka Igasaki
Murder on the Orient Express as Suda
Kuroi Gashu: Kusa as 笠井 光雄
Yoko the Cherry Blossom as Masaaki Takaoka
Police Precinct Soul as Naotaka Ohara

2014

25
Thermae Romae II as Shuzo Yamakoshi
The Little House as Kazuo Hanawa
The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom as Genjiro
Cape Nostalgia as Tokusaburo Ryuzaki
A Bolt from the Blue
A Far Promise

2013

Greatful Dead as Sanjuro Shiomi
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Miracle Apples as Fukatsu
Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion as Kotani Shobe
With All Our Might as Tsuyoshi Nagami

2012

Train Brain Express as Tetsuo Kodama
Casting Blossoms to the Sky as Akiyoshi Muraoka
Thermae Romae as Shuzo Yamakoshi
Tug of War! as Naomasa Fujishiro
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer as Dennai Tatsube
FLY！～平凡なキセキ～
The Housekeeper

2011

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai as Sousuke priest Award
Wasao as Hasegawa
Slapstick Brothers
Kasha
At River's Edge as Gonnojō Sukegawa
Cut as Hiroshi
Princess Toyotomi

2010

Surely Someday
Tales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Fall Special: Popular Author Competition
The Negotiator: The Movie as Kohei Sumida
About Her Brother as Maruyama
Elevator to the Gallows
Accidental Kidnapper
Hitsudan Hostess as Kyojo Segawa
係長青島俊作　事件は取調室で起きている！ as 被疑者・堂島
樅ノ木は残った

2009

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity as Noriaki Okubo
Zen Award
Dear Doctor as Tokio Sone
Instant Swamp as Nishiohtachime
Free and Easy 20: Final
Mameshiba Cubbish Puppy as Yoshio Shiba
Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami
Giwaku
Making of "Departures" as Himself

2008

Happy Flight as Ground Manager Award
Departures as Shokichi Hirata Award
One Million Yen Girl as Siraishi Award
Kabei: Our Mother as Detective Kosuge
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit as Chief Ishii
God's Puzzle as Hashizume
10 Promises to My Dog
Samurai Gangsters as Daigoro
Double Trouble

2007

Adrift in Tokyo as Middle-aged Matmaker Award
Walking My Life as Haruo Takagi
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
Free and Easy 18
The Yakuza Principal
The Investigation Game as Yoshihito Tsuda

2006

Love and Honor as Tokuhei Award
Free and Easy 17
Damejin
Riding the Metro
Adan

2005

A Hardest Night!! as Kyoji
More Painful than Rain

2004

The Hidden Blade
Half a Confession
Free and Easy 15
Fireflies: River of Light

2003

Bright Future as Mr. Fujiwara
No One's Ark as Sakai

2001

A Tender Place
Last Scene
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project as Maehara Driver
The King of Minami: Formula for Deception
Quiet Don 12

2000

A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen as Kodama
Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen
Home Sweet Home
Quiet Don 11

1999

The Geisha House as Kosaka
Round About Midnight as Tasaki
Keiho as Tezuka
The Exam as Kanno

1998

Free and Easy 10
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage as Kinei
Love Letter

1997

Free and Easy 9
The Rainbow Seeker 2

1996

Free and Easy 8
The Rainbow Seeker
Oishinbo as Culture Department deputy director Tomii
A Class to Remember II
Quiet Don 10
Quiet Don 9

1995

Juukou B-Fighter: The Movie as Professor Kenzo Mukai
MARKS as Shozo Hayashi
A Brief Message from the Heart
The King of Minami: City of Desire

1993

A Class to Remember as Tsuchiya
Free and Easy 6
Quiet Don 6

1992

Midwinter Camellia
Free and Easy 5
The Games Teachers Play as Mr. Nakamura
Quiet Don 2

1991

Free and Easy 4 as Maehara, Driver
Kim's War
Quiet Don as Kawanishi
Seven Days War 2

1990

A Paucity of Flying Dreams as Masatoshi Tomioka
Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 9

1989

Free and Easy 2
Tora-san Goes to Vienna as the conductor
Beijing Watermelon as Mr. Yamada
Tora-san, My Uncle
The Demon Comes in Spring
READY! LADY

1988

The Discarnates as Dentist
Free and Easy
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You as Tokyo Shoji Employee
Seven Days War as Tanba
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

1987

Sure Death 4 as Yasukichi
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Tora-san Goes North
Tora-san Plays Daddy

1986

Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy

1985

Tora-san's Island Encounter

1984

Mahjong Horoki as Suzuki

1983

Ryuji

Photos & Videos

Featured in Trailers

125 Years Memory
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Love and Honor
Recall
HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky
Super Hero Wars GP: Kamen Rider #3
Happy Flight
Creepy
Departures

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