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Masanobu Ando

Masanobu Ando

Actor · Born 1975-05-19 · Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

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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 …

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Battle Royale (2000) — Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
  2. Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021) — Shinsaku Takasugi
  3. Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) — Yoichi
  4. Kids Return (1996) — Shinji
  5. City Hunter (2024) — Hideyuki Makimura
  6. Sadako vs. Kayako (2016) — Keizō Tokiwa
  7. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag (2011) — Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
  8. The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill (2021) — Suzuki
  9. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge (2011) — Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
  10. Nightmare Detective (2007) — Detective Wakamiya
  11. Sakuran (2006) — Seiji
  12. Monday (2000) — Mitsuo Kondo
  13. Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006) — Shiro Kazuki
  14. Fishbowl Wives (2022) — Takuya Hiraga [Sakura's husband]
  15. Railroad Man (1999) — Toshiyuki Yoshioka
  16. Your Turn to Kill (2019) — Go Sano
  17. The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman (2011) — The Mute
  18. Forever Enthralled (2008) — Ryuichi Tanaka
  19. Smuggler (2011) — Spine
  20. Red Shadow (2001) — Akakage
  21. Strawberry Shortcakes (2006) — Kikuchi
  22. Code Blue (2008) — Shinkai Hiroki
  23. Drive (2002) — Kodama Makato
  24. Black Kiss (2004) — Tatsuo Sorayama
  25. Rohan at the Louvre (2023) — Ryunosuke Tatsumi
  26. Petal Dance (2013) — Naoto
  27. Kokoro (2016) — Jiro
  28. Adrenaline Drive (1999) — Satoru Suzuki
  29. 69 (2004) — Adama
  30. Gonin Saga (2015) — Seiji Shikine
  31. Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation (2016) — Yasui
  32. Space Travelers (2000) — Makoto Fujimoto
  33. Still Life of Memories (2018) — Haruma
  34. A Flower Aflame (2016) — Yasunori Ochi
  35. Love and Fortune (2018) — Tsuchiya Jo
  36. Karaoke Terror (2003) — Sugioka
  37. The Yin Yang Master Zero (2024) — Sadafumi Heguri
  38. No No Sleep (2015) — Japanese Man
  39. Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final (2016) — Hajime Gakuto
  40. Rex: A Dinosaur's Story (1993)

Directed

  1. SHORT FILMS (2003) — Director
  2. Sakura (2021) — Director