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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Acting
Movie
Battle Royale
as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
2000
Movie
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
as Shinsaku Takasugi
2021
Movie
Sukiyaki Western Django
as Yoichi
2007
Movie
Kids Return
as Shinji
1996
Movie
City Hunter
as Hideyuki Makimura
2024
Movie
Sadako vs. Kayako
as Keizō Tokiwa
2016
Movie
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2011
Movie
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
as Suzuki
2021
Movie
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2011
Movie
Nightmare Detective
as Detective Wakamiya
2007
Movie
Sakuran
as Seiji
2006
Movie
Monday
as Mitsuo Kondo
2000
Movie
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Shiro Kazuki
2006
Movie
Railroad Man
as Toshiyuki Yoshioka
1999
TV
Fishbowl Wives
as Takuya Hiraga [Sakura's husband]
2022
TV
Your Turn to Kill
as Go Sano
2019
Movie
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
as The Mute
2011
Movie
Forever Enthralled
as Ryuichi Tanaka
2008
Movie
Smuggler
as Spine
2011
Movie
Red Shadow
as Akakage
2001
Movie
Strawberry Shortcakes
as Kikuchi
2006
TV
Code Blue
as Shinkai Hiroki
2008
Movie
Drive
as Kodama Makato
2002
Movie
Rohan at the Louvre
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi
2023
