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
62 movies · 26 shows
Stay Mum
2024·7.7
City Hunter
2024·6.5
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024·6.2
Rohan at the Louvre
2023·7.7
The Setting Sun
2022·6.0
Thousand and One Nights
2022·6.0
My Brother, The Android And Me
2022·0.0
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2021·7.7
ZOKKI
2021·7.3
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
2021·7.0
Sakura
2021·0.0
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
2019·0.0
Day and Night
2019·6.2
Lenses on Her Heart
2018·7.0
Code Blue: The Movie
2018·6.7
Still Life of Memories
2018·4.1
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017·4.5
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
2016·6.6
A Flower Aflame
2016·5.8
Sadako vs. Kayako
2016·5.6
Kokoro
2016·5.7
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
2016·6.0
Gonin Saga
2015·5.1
No No Sleep
2015·5.9
Beautiful 2015
2015·0.0
Petal Dance
2013·6.4
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
2013·1.0
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
2012·7.8
Smuggler
2011·6.4
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
2011·8.0
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
2011·7.3
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
2011·5.4
Forever Enthralled
2008·6.2
Sukiyaki Western Django
2007·6.2
Nightmare Detective
2007·6.1
Sakuran
2006·6.5
Crickets
2006·7.0
Strawberry Shortcakes
2006·5.6
Green Mind, Metal Bats
2006·6.6
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006·6.4
Aegis
2005·5.4
Synesthesia
2005·4.8
Black Kiss
2004·5.5
69
2004·6.5
Karaoke Terror
2003·5.7
SHORT FILMS
2003·0.0
Drive
2002·6.9
Tokyo 10+01
2002·6.3
Red Shadow
2001·4.9
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
2001·6.9
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001·0.0
Battle Royale
2000·7.3
Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000·0.0
Monday
2000·7.0
Space Travelers
2000·6.1
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
2000·8.8
Railroad Man
1999·7.1
Adrenaline Drive
1999·7.2
Innocent World
1998·7.0
Making-of Kids Return
1996·6.8
Kids Return
1996·6.9
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1993·5.5