Takashi Sasano (笹野 高史, Sasano Takashi, born June 22, 1948) is a Japanese actor.

Career

Sasano has appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's films Bright Future (2003) and Before We Vanish (2017).^[1] He also appeared in Amir Naderi's 2011 film Cut.^[2]

Filmography

Film

• Tora-san's Island Encounter (1985)
• Final Take (1986)
• A Class to Remember (1993)
• The Geisha House (1999)
• Keiho (1999)
• Last Scene (2002)
• Bright Future (2003)
• No One's Ark (2003)
• The Hidden Blade (2004)
• Ame Yori Setsunaku (2005)
• Metro ni Notte (2006)
• Love and Honor (2006)
• Nezu no Ban (2006)
• Tsuribaka Nisshi 17 (2006)
• Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
• 10 Promises to My Dog (2008)
• Departures (2008)
• Mt. Tsurugidake (2009)
• Dear Doctor (2009)
• Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky (2009)
• Surely Someday (2010)
• About Her Brother (2010)
• Wasao (2011)
• Cut (2011)
• Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
• Slapstick Brothers (2011)
• Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer (2012)
• Thermae Romae (2012)
• 125 Years Memory (2015), Mayor Sato
• Creepy (2016)
• Golden Orchestra (2016)
• What a Wonderful Family! (2016)
• Before We Vanish (2017)
• Recall (2018)
• What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life (2018)
• Life in Overtime (2018)
• Masquerade Hotel (2019)
• Tora-san, Wish You Were Here (2019), Gozen-sama
• Haruka no Sue (2019)
• The 47 Ronin in Debt (2019), Ochiai Yozaemon
• They Say Nothing Stays the Same (2019)
• Labyrinth of Cinema (2020)
• Wife of a Spy (2020), Dr. Nozaki^[3]
• The Devil Wears Jūnihitoe (2020)^[4]
• Nishinari Goro's 400 Million Yen (2021)^[5]
• Riverside Mukolitta (2022)^[6]
• What to Do with the Dead Kaiju? (2022), the Minister of Finance^[7]
• Yudo: The Way of the Bath (2023)^[8]
• We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams (2023)^[9]
• Nemesis: The Movie (2023)^[10]
• Immersion (2023)^[11]
• The Silent Service (2023), the prime minister Toshio Takegami^[12]
• Corpo a Corpo (2023)^[13]
• Daisuke Jigen (2023)^[14]

Television

• Aoi (2000) – Torii Mototada
• Tenchijin (2009) – Toyotomi Hideyoshi
• Shinzanmono (2010)
• Man of Destiny (2012) – Takeo Fukude
• Samurai Rebellion (2013)
• Keisei Saimin no Otoko Part 1 (2015) – Inoue Kaoru
• Shuriken Sentai Ninninger (2015) – Yoshitaka Igasaki
• Nobunaga Moyu (2016) – Yoshida Kanemi
• Chiisana Hashi de (2017)
• Ishitsubute (2017)
• Brother and Sister (2018)
• Wife of a Spy (2020) – Dr. Nozaki
• Love You as the World Ends (2021) – Masaomi Uwajima
• Nakamura Nakazo: Shusse no Kizahashi (2021)^[15]
• My Ex-Boyfriend's Last Will (2022) – Genta Murayama^[16]
• The Silent Service (2024) – the prime minister Toshio Takegami^[17]

Awards