Masanobu Ando
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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Fotos
Películas (62)

Stay Mum
2024 · Yasuo Inukai

Cazador urbano
2024 · Hideyuki Makimura

The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024 · Sadafumi Heguri

Rohan at the Louvre
2023 · Ryunosuke Tatsumi

The Setting Sun
2022 · Jiro Uehara

Thousand and One Nights
2022 · Yoji Tamura

My Brother, The Android And Me
2022

Samurái X: El origen
2021 · Shinsaku Takasugi

Zokki
2021

The Fable: El asesino que no mata
2021 · Suzuki

Sakura
2021 · Director

TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
2019

Day and Night
2019 · Kenichi Kitamura

Lenses on Her Heart
2018 · Yuji Kiba

Code Blue: The Movie
2018 · Hiroki Shinkai

Still Life of Memories
2018 · Haruma

An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017 · Kamimura Ren

Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
2016 · Hajime Gakuto

A Flower Aflame
2016 · Yasunori Ochi

La batalla de los espíritus: El Aro vs. La Maldición
2016 · Keizō Tokiwa

Kokoro
2016 · Jiro

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
2016 · Yasui

GONIN Saga
2015 · Seiji Shikine

No No Sleep
2015 · Japanese Man

Beautiful 2015
2015

Petal Dance
2013 · Naoto

Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
2013 · Shuji Yamura

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
2012 · Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

Smuggler
2011 · Spine

Guerreros del arco iris: Seediq Bale - Rainbow Bridge
2011 · Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

Guerreros del arco iris: Seediq Bale - Sun Flag
2011 · Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
2011 · The Mute

Forever Enthralled
2008 · Ryuichi Tanaka

Sukiyaki Western Django
2007 · Yoichi

Entre los sueños y la muerte (Nightmare Detective)
2007 · Detective Wakamiya

Sakuran
2006 · Seiji

Crickets
2006 · Taichi

Strawberry Shortcakes
2006 · Kikuchi

Green Mind, Metal Bats
2006 · Ishioka

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006 · Shiro Kazuki

Aegis
2005 · Don-chol

Synesthesia
2005 · Takashi Nohara

Black Kiss
2004 · Tatsuo Sorayama

69
2004 · Adama

Karaoke Terror
2003 · Sugioka

SHORT FILMS
2003 · Director

Drive
2002 · Kodama Makato

Tokyo 10+01
2002 · Fake

Red Shadow
2001 · Akakage

Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
2001 · Kenichi Satomi

Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001 · Self
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Juego sangriento [バトル・ロワイアル]
2000 · Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000 · Self

Monday
2000 · Mitsuo Kondo

Space Travelers
2000 · Makoto Fujimoto

School Ghost Story: Curse Special
2000 · Satô

Railroad Man
1999 · Toshiyuki Yoshioka

Adrenaline Drive
1999 · Satoru Suzuki

Innocent World
1998 · Takuya

Making-of Kids Return
1996 · Himself

Kids Return
1996 · Shinji

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1993
Series (27)

Los Diez Valientes de Sanada
2026 · Yukimura Sanada

The Royal Family
2025 · Hiroshi Hironaka

House of the Owl
2024 · Ichiro Ogami

Destiny
2024 · Okuda Takashi

My Second Aoharu
2023 · Hinata Shogo

Pandora's Fruit
2022 · Caen Karl

Como peces dorados
2022 · Takuya Hiraga

Gossip
2022 · Masaki Niwa

Tokyo Houchi Shokudo
2021 · Kotaro Higashi

The Ideal Man
2021 · Mitsuyasu

DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
2020 · Naoya Date(伊達 直哉)

The Sun Does Not Move
2020 · Osamu Sakurai

The Ship of Theseus
2020 · Mikio Kimura

Voice: 110 Emergency Control Room
2019 · Kyosuke Kuon

Your Turn to Kill
2019 · Go Sano

それを愛とまちがえるから
2019

Cheers to Miki Clinic
2019 · Miki Shouichirou

Black Scandal
2018

Koi No Tsuki: Suerte en el amor
2018 · Tsuchiya Jo

シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
2016 · Haruki Kagawa

Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
2016 · Osako Tatsuya

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015

Keigo Higashino Mysteries
2012

Code Blue
2008 · Shinkai Hiroki

Blue Days
1998 · Shuri Sawaki

When the Saints Go Marching In
1998 · Takahara Ren

Friend's Lover
1997





