Masanobu Ando
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1975-05-19 (49 years old)
Place of Birth
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
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
Acting
(2024)
City Hunter
as Hideyuki Makimura
(2024)
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Sadafumi Heguri
(2024)
Stay Mum
as Yasuo Inukai
(2023)
Rohan at the Louvre
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi
(2022)
Thousand and One Nights
as Yoji Tamura
(2022)
The Setting Sun
as Jiro Uehara
(2022)
(2021)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
as Shinsaku Takasugi
(2021)
(2021)
(2021)
(2019)
Day and Night
as Kenichi Kitamura
(2018)
Still Life of Memories
as Haruma
(2018)
Code Blue: The Movie
as Hiroki Shinkai
(2018)
Lenses on Her Heart
as Yuji Kiba
(2017)
An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Kamimura Ren
(2016)
Sadako vs. Kayako
as Keizō Tokiwa
(2016)
A Flower Aflame
as Yasunori Ochi
(2016)
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
as Hajime Gakuto
(2016)
(2016)
Kokoro
as Jiro
(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)
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
(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)
Smuggler
as Spine
(2011)
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
as The Mute
(2008)
Forever Enthralled
as Ryuichi Tanaka
(2007)
Sukiyaki Western Django
as Yoichi
(2007)
Nightmare Detective
as Detective Wakamiya
(2006)
Sakuran
as Seiji
(2006)
Strawberry Shortcakes
as Kikuchi
(2006)
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Shiro Kazuki
(2006)
Green Mind, Metal Bats
as Ishioka
(2006)
Crickets
as Taichi
(2005)
Aegis
as Don-chol
(2005)
Synesthesia
as Takashi Nohara
(2004)
69
as Adama
(2004)
Black Kiss
as Tatsuo Sorayama
(2003)
Karaoke Terror
as Sugioka
(2003)
(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)
(2000)
Battle Royale
as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
(2000)
Monday
as Mitsuo Kondo
(2000)
Space Travelers
as Makoto Fujimoto
(2000)
Making of 'Battle Royale'
as Self
(2000)
(1999)
Railroad Man
as Toshiyuki Yoshioka
(1999)
Adrenaline Drive
as Satoru Suzuki
(1998)
Innocent World
as Takuya
(1996)
Kids Return
as Shinji
(1996)
Making-of Kids Return
as Himself
(1993)
Crew
(2021)
Sakura,
Director
(2003)
SHORT FILMS
Director