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Shirô Sasaki

Shirô Sasaki

Producer · Born December 30, 1958 (67) · Tokyo, Japan

Shiro Sasaki is a Japanese anime and music producer working for Victor Entertainment. He is the founder and president of the sub label Flying Dog. Not to be confused with film producer Shirou Sasaki (same kanji, born January 22, 1939).

Biography from TMDB.

Born
December 30, 1958 (67)
From
Tokyo, Japan
Works as
Producer
Titles
57 on MovieCove · 75 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 63 days to Oct 26Down 32% in 30 days

What are Shirô Sasaki's films like?

Across their 29 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.

Genres

Animation10 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 72nd percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Animation movies
Comedy4 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 81st percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Comedy movies
Drama3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 63rd percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Drama movies
Action2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 35th percentile
: browse their Action movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Self
30%
Bonds
23%
Morality
12%
Society
11%
Survival
11%
Ideas
7%
Power
6%
Identity8 titles, browse their movies with this themeFriendship7 titles, browse their movies with this themeCommunity6 titles, browse their movies with this themeComing of age5 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love5 titles, browse their movies with this themeGrief3 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival3 titles, browse their movies with this themeLoyalty2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 21 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 11 · Serious 3 · Dark 7

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

A split, not a type: Grounded 4 · Stylized 8 · Heightened 9

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 4 · Charged 10 · Intense 7

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 8 · Shifting 11 · Whiplash 2

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 11 · Some laughs 6 · Funny 4

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

A split, not a type: Slow burn 11 · Even-paced 8 · Relentless 2

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 5 · Engaged 12 · Full focus 4

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 13 · Open-ended 5 · Ambiguous 3

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
15
Melancholic
10
Warm
9
Joyful
9
Contemplative
8
Other
21

How their films linger

Thought-provoking8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful9 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 5 with a twist

  • Happy8
  • Bittersweet11
  • Tragic2
  • Ambiguous7
  • Cyclical1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Shirô Sasaki's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 41 of their 57 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Crunchyroll (30).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Shirô Sasaki's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

75 credits, 57 with a MovieCove page.

  • Wash It All Away(2026)

    Show 12 episodes · Other

    Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all shows

  • Red Memory (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Music Producer

  • Once Upon a Witch's Death(2025)

    Show 12 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all shows

  • AQUARION Myth of Emotions (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Show 12 episodes · Music Producer

  • Mysterious Disappearances(2024)

    Show 12 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all shows

  • Train to the End of the World(2024)

    Show 12 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all shows

  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom(2024)

    Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films

  • Pluto(2023)

    Show 8 episodes · Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows

  • Shangri-La Frontier(2023)

    Show Producer

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows

  • I'm Quitting Heroing(2022)

    Show 12 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all shows

  • Slow Loop(2022)

    Show 12 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all shows

  • Fena: Pirate Princess(2021)

    Show 12 episodes · Music Supervisor

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows

  • Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater(2020)

    Show 12 episodes · Other

    Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all shows

  • Arte(2020)

    Show 12 episodes · Other

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all shows

  • Stars Align(2019)

    Show 12 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all shows

  • Ascendance of a Bookworm(2019)

    Show 24 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows

  • Are You Lost?(2019)

    Show Producer

    Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all shows

  • Laidbackers(2019)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • The Ancient Magus' Bride(2017)

    Show 24 episodes · Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all shows

  • Recovery of an MMO Junkie(2017)

    Show 10 episodes · Development Producer

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all shows

  • Restaurant to Another World(2017)

    Show 24 episodes · Development Producer

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows

  • Fuuka (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Show 12 episodes · Development Producer

  • Kantai Collection: KanColle Movie(2016)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films

  • In This Corner of the World(2016)

    Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films

  • Macross Delta(2015)

    Show 26 episodes · Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all shows

  • Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam Movie - Over the Wishes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Development Producer

  • Kin'iro mozaiku: Pretty Days(2016)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture(2015)

    Show Producer

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows

  • Journey to the Shore(2015)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films

  • Sky Wizards Academy(2015)

    Show Producer

    Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all shows

  • Chaika: The Coffin Princess(2014)

    Show 22 episodes · Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all shows

  • Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone(2014)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films

  • Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears(2014)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films

  • Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain(2013)

    Producer · Production Supervisor

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films

  • Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers(2013)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films

  • A Letter to Momo(2011)

    Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films

  • .hack//The Movie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Executive Producer

  • Maaya Sakamoto Live 2011 in the silence (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Executive Producer

  • Gekijouban Sengoku Basara: The Last Party(2011)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films

  • The Woodsman and the Rain(2011)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films

  • Trigun: Badlands Rumble(2010)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films

  • And Yet the Town Moves(2010)

    Show Producer

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all shows

  • Macross Frontier(2008)

    Show 25 episodes · Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all shows

  • I SAY YEAH! NeOSITE 10th Anniversary Party@Shibuya-AX (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    as Utamaru

  • Gunbuster: The Movie(2006)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films

  • Moon Phase(2004)

    Show 25 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all shows

  • Kurau Phantom Memory (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    Show 24 episodes · Producer

  • Samurai Champloo(2004)

    Show 26 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • Antenna (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    Executive Producer

  • RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Producer

  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex(2002)

    Show 26 episodes · Production Coordinator

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows

  • Tokyo Underground (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    Show 26 episodes · Music Producer

  • RahXephon(2002)

    Show Producer

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows

  • Clockwork Fighters Hiwou's War(2000)

    Show 26 episodes · Producer

    Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)

  • Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card(2000)

    Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films

  • Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade(1999)

    Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films

  • Romantic Mania (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)

    Producer

  • Apocalypse Zero (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Show 2 episodes · Co-Producer

  • X: The Movie(1996)

    Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films

  • The Vision of Escaflowne(1996)

    Show 26 episodes · Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all shows

  • Homecoming(1996)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films

  • Dragon Half (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)

    Show 2 episodes · Producer

  • Ellcia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    Show 4 episodes · Music Director

  • One Pound Gospel(1988)

    Music Director

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films

  • Gunbuster (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)

    Show 6 episodes · Producer

  • Junk Boy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)

    Music Director

  • Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast(1986)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films

  • Farewell to the Ark(1984)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films

  • Mermaid Legend(1984)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films

  • The Crazy Family(1984)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films

  • I Are You, You Am Me(1982)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films

  • Jûhassai, umi e(1979)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • Hawaiian Love: Dangerous Honeymoon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)

    Production Coordinator

  • Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71(1971)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films

  • Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo(1970)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films

Career shape

A full career of 51 titles from 1978 to 2026.

Biggest box office

Kantai Collection: KanColle Movie (2016)

$2.5M worldwide

Highest rated

Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010)

Midcredits 92nd

Most popular right now

Shangri-La Frontier (2023)

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting1 of 51: 1 only acting, 0 with another roleProducing25 of 51: 25 only producing, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score47thMusic15 of 51: 15 only music, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score84thOther crew10 of 51: 10 only other crew, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score65th

By decade

1970s1 · crew1980s3 · crew1990s7 · crew2000s11 · 1 acting · 10 crew2010s16 · crew2020s13 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

How do Shirô Sasaki's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 80th percentile, the median of all 28; across their 21 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 79th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

79thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 21

Approval · how many liked their films

71stpercentile
Typical film, the median of 21

Reach · how many have seen their films

56thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 21

Midcredits score across 57 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up25
  • 50th to 74th14
  • 25th to 49th15
  • Below 25th3

Shape of the crowd

24 of their 57 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved7
  • Universally Panned1
  • Divisive2
  • Cult Classic1
  • Crowd Pleaser24
  • Broadly Agreed4
  • Mixed18

Most divisive · producer

Kantai Collection: KanColle Movie (2016)

92nd percentile spread · 27% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · producer

Samurai Champloo (2004)

Midcredits 98th · 92% liked

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Shirô Sasaki's work okay for kids?

Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.

Their medianMedian of all films
Sex & Nudity4 titlesmedian 31 · mildMedian of all films: 32

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.

Who does Shirô Sasaki work with?

People who share at least 2 of Shirô Sasaki's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Maaya Sakamoto shares the most, 7.

Directors

Writers

Actors

  • Maaya Sakamoto7 titles    See all 7 shared titles with Maaya Sakamoto
  • Yôji Ueda6 titles    See all 6 shared titles with Yôji Ueda
  • Ikkyu Juku5 titles    See all 5 shared titles with Ikkyu Juku
  • Kazuya Nakai5 titles    See all 5 shared titles with Kazuya Nakai

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers

  • Katsuji Morishita6 titles    See all 6 shared titles with Katsuji Morishita
  • Mitsuhisa Ishikawa6 titles    See all 6 shared titles with Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
  • Tsuneo Takechi5 titles    See all 5 shared titles with Tsuneo Takechi
  • Jun'ichirô Tsuchiya5 titles    See all 5 shared titles with Jun'ichirô Tsuchiya