Masanobu Ando
Masanobu Ando (安藤 政信, Andō Masanobu, born May 19, 1975 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor and director. For his second film, in 1996, he won the Film Academy of Japan's Best New Actor Award, starring in Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return. Ando has extensive experience in both Japanese television drama and film and has played a large variety of different roles: mentally challenged (Innocent World), bank robber (Space Travelers, Drive), doctor (Transparent), ninja and samurai (Red Shadow), even a corpse (Monday). Out of all of Ando's characters, he is best known for his role as Kazuo Kiriyama, the heartless, psychopathic killer in the controversial film, Battle Royale (2000). He also played an art forger in the low-budget Battle Royale parody Tokyo 10+01 (2003). As well as acting, Ando has been in Japanese ad campaigns for the popular Japanese snack food, Pocky, Toyota, and for DoCoMo mobile phones. In 2003, he directed his first film, Adagietto. Sehr langsam, starring Japanese actress, Kumiko Aso. The short is included in Hiroyuki Nakano's Peacedelic compilation called Short Films. In it, he also stars in the short, 県道スター (loosely translated to "Prefectural road star"). In his spare time, he enjoys photography and shopping Description above from the Wikipedia article Masanobu Ando, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- 2024 · Stay Mum as
- 2024 · City Hunter as Hideyuki Makimura
- 2024 · House of the Owl as Ichiro Ogami
- 2024 · The Yin-Yang Master Zero as Sadafumi Heguri
- 2024 · Destiny as Okuda Takashi
- 2023 · My Second Aoharu as Hinata Shogo
- 2023 · Rohan at the Louvre as Ryunosuke Tatsumi
- 2022 · The Setting Sun as Jiro Uehara
- 2022 · Thousand and One Nights as Yoji Tamura
- 2022 · Pandora's Fruit as Caen Karl
- 2022 · Fishbowl Wives as Takuya Hiraga
- 2022 · My Brother, The Android And Me as
- 2022 · Gossip as Masaki Niwa
- 2021 · Tokyo Houchi Shokudou as Kotaro Higashi
- 2021 · Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning as Shinsaku Takasugi
- 2021 · The Ideal Man as Mitsuyasu
- 2021 · ZOKKI as
- 2021 · THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill as Suzuki
- 2021 · Sakura, as
- 2020 · DIVER -Special Investigation Unit- as Naoya Date(伊達 直哉)
- 2020 · The Sun Does Not Move as Osamu Sakurai
- 2020 · The Ship of Theseus as Mikio Kimura
- 2019 · Voice as Kyosuke Kuon
- 2019 · Your Turn To Kill as Go Sano
- 2019 · それを愛とまちがえるから as
- 2019 · Day and Night as Kenichi Kitamura
- 2019 · Cheers to Miki Clinic as Miki Shouichirou
- 2018 · Black Scandal as
- 2018 · Lenses on Her Heart as Yuji Kiba
- 2018 · Love and Fortune as Tsuchiya Jo
- 2018 · Code Blue: The Movie as Hiroki Shinkai
- 2018 · Still Life of Memories as Haruma
- 2017 · An Emblem Dedicated To You as Kamimura Ren
- 2016 · シリーズ・横溝正史短編集 as Haruki Kagawa
- 2016 · Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final as Hajime Gakuto
- 2016 · A Flower Aflame as Yasunori Ochi
- 2016 · Sadako vs. Kayako as Keizō Tokiwa
- 2016 · Kokoro as Jiro
- 2016 · Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation as Yasui
- 2016 · Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko! as Osako Tatsuya
- 2015 · Gonin Saga as Seiji Shikine
- 2015 · No No Sleep as Japanese man
- 2013 · Petal Dance as Naoto
- 2013 · Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope as Shuji Yamura
- 2012 · Keigo Higashino Mysteries as
- 2012 · Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
- 2011 · Smuggler as Spine
- 2011 · Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
- 2011 · Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
- 2011 · The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman as The Mute
- 2008 · Forever Enthralled as Ryuichi Tanaka
- 2008 · Code Blue as Hiroki Shinkai
- 2007 · Sukiyaki Western Django as Yoichi
- 2007 · Nightmare Detective as Detective Wakamiya
- 2006 · Sakuran as Seiji
- 2006 · Crickets as Taichi
- 2006 · Strawberry Shortcakes as Kikuchi
- 2006 · Green Mind, Metal Bats as Ishioka
- 2006 · Big Bang Love, Juvenile A as Shiro Kazuki
- 2005 · Aegis as Don-chol
- 2005 · Synesthesia as Takashi Nohara
- 2004 · Black Kiss as Tatsuo Sorayama
- 2004 · 69 as Adama
- 2003 · Karaoke Terror as Sugioka
- 2003 · SHORT FILMS as
- 2002 · Drive as Kodama Makato
- 2002 · Tokyo 10+01 as Fake
- 2001 · Red Shadow as Akakage
- 2001 · Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius as Kenichi Satomi
- 2001 · Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE as Self
- 2000 · Battle Royale as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
- 2000 · Making of 'Battle Royale' as Self
- 2000 · Monday as Mitsuo Kondo
- 2000 · Space Travelers as Makoto Fujimoto
- 2000 · School Ghost Story: Curse Special as Satô
- 1999 · Railroad Man as Toshiyuki Yoshioka
- 1999 · Adrenaline Drive as Satoru Suzuki
- 1998 · Innocent World as Takuya
- 1998 · Blue Days as Shuri Sawaki
- 1998 · When the Saints Go Marching In as Takahara Ren
- 1997 · Tomodachi no Koibito as
- 1996 · Making-of Kids Return as Himself
- 1996 · Kids Return as Shinji
- 1993 · Rex: A Dinosaur's Story as