Masanobu Ando
Acting
Born 1975-05-19
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
88 credits
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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
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Filmography
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Code Blue
Battle Royale
Fishbowl Wives
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Your Turn to Kill
City Hunter
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
My Second Aoharu
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
House of the Owl
Voice
Love and Fortune
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
Sadako vs. Kayako
Destiny
The Sun Does Not Move
Sukiyaki Western Django
The Royal Family
Pandora's Fruit
When the Saints Go Marching In
The Ship of Theseus
Sakuran
Kids Return
A Flower Aflame
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
Tokyo Houchi Shokudo
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Cheers to Miki Clinic
Still Life of Memories
Red Shadow
Black Scandal
No No Sleep
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
The Ideal Man
Blue Days
Code Blue: The Movie
Tomodachi no Koibito
Gossip
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Railroad Man
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Monday
Forever Enthralled
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Black Kiss
Rohan at the Louvre
Smuggler
Karaoke Terror
それを愛とまちがえるから
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
Kokoro
Space Travelers
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
The Setting Sun
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
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