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
88 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 88
Code Blue
2008
Fishbowl Wives
2022
Your Turn to Kill
2019
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
2016
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
2012
Battle Royale
2000
The Sun Does Not Move
2020
House of the Owl
2024
Pandora's Fruit
2022
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2021
Voice
2019
The Ship of Theseus
2020
Destiny
2024
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
City Hunter
2024
Gossip
2022
Love and Fortune
2018
Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
2021
My Second Aoharu
2023
Cheers to Miki Clinic
2019
The Royal Family
2025
Sadako vs. Kayako
2016
Kids Return
1996
Sukiyaki Western Django
2007
Sakuran
2006
The Ideal Man
2021
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
2020
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
2021
Still Life of Memories
2018
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
2016
Code Blue: The Movie
2018
When the Saints Go Marching In
1998
Railroad Man
1999
A Flower Aflame
2016
Space Travelers
2000
Blue Days
1998
Black Scandal
2018
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024
Monday
2000
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
2011
Aegis
2005
ZOKKI
2021
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
2011
Smuggler
2011
Forever Enthralled
2008
Gonin Saga
2015
Black Kiss
2004
Adrenaline Drive
1999
Karaoke Terror
2003
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1993
それを愛とまちがえるから
2019
Nightmare Detective
2007
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
2001
Red Shadow
2001
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
2016
69
2004
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
2016
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006
Day and Night
2019
Lenses on Her Heart
2018
Strawberry Shortcakes
2006
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
2011
Thousand and One Nights
2022
Synesthesia
2005
Drive
2002
Stay Mum
2024
My Brother, The Android And Me
2022
Crickets
2006
Green Mind, Metal Bats
2006
Rohan at the Louvre
2023
The Setting Sun
2022
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
2013
Kokoro
2016
Innocent World
1998
Tomodachi no Koibito
1997
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001
Petal Dance
2013
No No Sleep
2015
Sakura,
2021
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
2019
SHORT FILMS
2003
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
2012
Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
2000
Tokyo 10+01
2002
Beautiful 2015
2015
Making-of Kids Return
1996