Masato Sako
Masato Sako was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. He stood at 168 centimeters tall and weighed in at 62 kilograms.
Sako dropped out of Chuo University. He then enrolled in the theater company Gekidan Kumo. He later transferred to Engekishūdan En. He has performed in Shakespeare, television dramas, dubs of western films and animation. His oldest daughter, Mayumi Sako, is enrolled in the Bungaku Company. On January 11, 2003, Masato Sako died of oral cancer in an Iwakuni hospital at the age of 56.
Successors
After Sako's death, the following actors were recruited to take over Sako's ongoing roles.- Shinji Ogawa
- Fumihiko Tachiki
Filmography
Television drama
- Enkana Aitsu ha yo Goto Pank Nayume wo Miru
- Dai chūshingura
- ''Meiji no Gunzō: Umi ni Karin wo''
Film
- ''Minbō no Onna''
Tokusatsu
- Kaettekita Ultraman
- ''Uchū Keiji Sharivan''
Television animation
- Brain Powerd
- ''Detective Conan''
OVA
- ''Ginga Eiyū Densetsu''
Theatrical animation
- ''Taiho Shichauzo the Movie''
Dubbing roles
Live action
- Gary Oldman
- *Léon: The Professional
- *The Fifth Element
- *Air Force One
- *Lost in Space
- 8mm
- Before and After
- Ben-Hur
- Beetlejuice
- The Brothers McMullen
- Executive Decision
- Fargo
- From the Earth to the Moon
- Ghostbusters II
- Hero
- Millennium
- New Jack City
- The Poseidon Adventure
- Romancing the Stone
- The Running Man
- Shining Through
- Sleeping with the Enemy
- Still Crazy
- Straight Time
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Vampires
- ''Wild Wild West''
Animation
- Batman: The Animated Series
- Lady and the Tramp
- ''Toy Story 2''