Masanobu Ando
Acting
1975-05-19 · Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
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
Filmography
真田十勇士 SHADOWS OF THE TEN NINJA
2026 · Series
The Royal Family
2025 · Series
Stay Mum
2024 · Movie
House of the Owl
2024 · Series
City Hunter
2024 · Movie
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024 · Movie
Destiny
2024 · Series
My Second Aoharu
2023 · Series
Rohan at the Louvre
2023 · Movie
The Setting Sun
2022 · Movie
Thousand and One Nights
2022 · Movie
Pandora's Fruit
2022 · Series
Fishbowl Wives
2022 · Series
My Brother, The Android And Me
2022 · Movie
Gossip
2022 · Series
Tokyo Houchi Shokudo
2021 · Series
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2021 · Movie
The Ideal Man
2021 · Series
ZOKKI
2021 · Movie
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
2021 · Movie
Sakura
2021 · Movie
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
2020 · Series
The Sun Does Not Move
2020 · Series
The Ship of Theseus
2020 · Series
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
2019 · Movie
Voice
2019 · Series
Your Turn to Kill
2019 · Series
それを愛とまちがえるから
2019 · Series
Day and Night
2019 · Movie
Cheers to Miki Clinic
2019 · Series
Black Scandal
2018 · Series
Lenses on Her Heart
2018 · Movie
Love and Fortune
2018 · Series
Code Blue: The Movie
2018 · Movie
Still Life of Memories
2018 · Movie
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017 · Movie
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
2016 · Series
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
2016 · Movie
A Flower Aflame
2016 · Movie
Sadako vs. Kayako
2016 · Movie
Kokoro
2016 · Movie
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
2016 · Movie
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
2016 · Series
Gonin Saga
2015 · Movie
No No Sleep
2015 · Movie
Beautiful 2015
2015 · Movie
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015 · Series
Petal Dance
2013 · Movie
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
2013 · Movie
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
2012 · Series
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
2012 · Movie
Smuggler
2011 · Movie
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
2011 · Movie
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
2011 · Movie
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
2011 · Movie
Forever Enthralled
2008 · Movie
Code Blue
2008 · Series
Sukiyaki Western Django
2007 · Movie
Nightmare Detective
2007 · Movie
Sakuran
2006 · Movie
Crickets
2006 · Movie
Strawberry Shortcakes
2006 · Movie
Green Mind, Metal Bats
2006 · Movie
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006 · Movie
Aegis
2005 · Movie
Synesthesia
2005 · Movie
Black Kiss
2004 · Movie
69
2004 · Movie
Karaoke Terror
2003 · Movie
SHORT FILMS
2003 · Movie
Drive
2002 · Movie
Tokyo 10+01
2002 · Movie
Red Shadow
2001 · Movie
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
2001 · Movie
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001 · Movie
Battle Royale
2000 · Movie
Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000 · Movie
Monday
2000 · Movie
Space Travelers
2000 · Movie
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
2000 · Movie
Railroad Man
1999 · Movie
Adrenaline Drive
1999 · Movie
Innocent World
1998 · Movie
Blue Days
1998 · Series
When the Saints Go Marching In
1998 · Series
Tomodachi no Koibito
1997 · Series
Making-of Kids Return
1996 · Movie
Kids Return
1996 · Movie
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1993 · Movie