Masanobu Ando

Known for ActingBorn 1975-05-19 (age 51)Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

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 WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

When the Saints Go Marching In

The Royal Family

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

School Ghost Story: Curse Special

The Sun Does Not Move

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge

Blue Days

Stay Mum

Rohan at the Louvre

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

The Ideal Man

My Second Aoharu

Code Blue

Your Turn to Kill

ZOKKI

Tokyo Houchi Shokudou

Gossip

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag

Battle Royale

Adrenaline Drive

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill

Lenses on Her Heart

Railroad Man

Love and Fortune

Crickets

Monday

The Ship of Theseus

Innocent World

Drive

Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius

Code Blue: The Movie

Kids Return

Keigo Higashino Mysteries

Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final

Making-of Kids Return

City Hunter

House of the Owl

Green Mind, Metal Bats

Sakuran

69

Petal Dance

Smuggler

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

The Yin Yang Master Zero

Day and Night

Tokyo 10+01

Fishbowl Wives