
Masanobu Ando
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 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 Wikipedia
Acting (61 movies)

Battle Royale
2000

Rohan at the Louvre
2023

Adrenaline Drive
1999

Kids Return
1996

My Brother, The Android And Me
2022

Sukiyaki Western Django
2007

Monday
2000

Nightmare Detective
2007

Drive
2002

Black Kiss
2004

Space Travelers
2000

Railroad Man
1999

Strawberry Shortcakes
2006

Smuggler
2011

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
2011

Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
2001

SHORT FILMS
2003

The Setting Sun
2022

Aegis
2005

Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001

Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000

Petal Dance
2013

Forever Enthralled
2008

Synesthesia
2005

The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024

Thousand and One Nights
2022

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
2011

Sakuran
2006

Red Shadow
2001

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
2011

Innocent World
1998

Tokyo 10+01
2002

Green Mind, Metal Bats
2006

Crickets
2006

69
2004

Karaoke Terror
2003

No No Sleep
2015

City Hunter
2024

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
2012

Stay Mum
2024

Gonin Saga
2015

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
2016

Sadako vs. Kayako
2016

Kokoro
2016

Sakura,
2021

An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017

Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
2016

Code Blue: The Movie
2018

Still Life of Memories
2018

Day and Night
2019

Lenses on Her Heart
2018

School Ghost Story: Curse Special
2000

Making-of Kids Return
1996

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

A Flower Aflame
2016

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006

THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
2021

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1993

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2021

ZOKKI
2021

Beautiful 2015
2015
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|