Known For
Acting
Born
May 19, 1975
Place of Birth
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Credits
88 titles
Masanobu Ando
Biography
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
Known For
Filmography
The Royal Family
Hiroshi Hironaka
Stay Mum
Yasuo Inukai
House of the Owl
Ichiro Ogami
City Hunter
Hideyuki Makimura
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Sadafumi Heguri
Destiny
Okuda Takashi
My Second Aoharu
Hinata Shogo
Rohan at the Louvre
Ryunosuke Tatsumi
The Setting Sun
Jiro Uehara
Thousand and One Nights
Yoji Tamura
Pandora's Fruit
Caen Karl
Fishbowl Wives
Takuya Hiraga [Sakura's husband]
My Brother, The Android And Me
Gossip
Masaki Niwa
Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
Kotaro Higashi
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Shinsaku Takasugi
The Ideal Man
Mitsuyasu
ZOKKI
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Suzuki
Sakura
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
Naoya Date（伊達 直哉）
The Sun Does Not Move
Osamu Sakurai
The Ship of Theseus
Mikio Kimura
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
Voice
Kyosuke Kuon
Your Turn to Kill
Go Sano
それを愛とまちがえるから
Day and Night
Kenichi Kitamura
Cheers to Miki Clinic
Miki Shouichirou
Black Scandal
Lenses on Her Heart
Yuji Kiba
Love and Fortune
Tsuchiya Jo
Code Blue: The Movie
Hiroki Shinkai
Still Life of Memories
Haruma
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kamimura Ren
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
Haruki Kagawa
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Hajime Gakuto
A Flower Aflame
Yasunori Ochi
Sadako vs. Kayako
Keizō Tokiwa
Kokoro
Jiro
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Yasui
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
Osako Tatsuya
Gonin Saga
Seiji Shikine
No No Sleep
Japanese Man
Beautiful 2015
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Petal Dance
Naoto
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
Shuji Yamura
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan