Masanobu Ando
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
Known For
Actor
as Hideyuki Makimura
as Sadafumi Heguri
as Ichiro Ogami
as Okuda Takashi
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi
as Hinata Shogo
as Jiro Uehara
as Yoji Tamura
as Caen Karl
as Takuya Hiraga
as Masaki Niwa
as Shinsaku Takasugi
as Suzuki
as Kotaro Higashi
as Mitsuyasu
as Naoya Date（伊達 直哉）
as Osamu Sakurai
as Mikio Kimura
as Kenichi Kitamura
as Kyosuke Kuon
as Go Sano
as Miki Shouichirou
as Yuji Kiba
as Hiroki Shinkai
as Haruma
as Tsuchiya Jo
as Kamimura Ren
as Hajime Gakuto
as Yasunori Ochi
as Keizō Tokiwa
as Jiro
as Haruki Kagawa
as Osako Tatsuya
as Seiji Shikine
as Japanese man
as Naoto
as Shuji Yamura
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
as Spine
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
as The Mute
as Ryuichi Tanaka
as Hiroki Shinkai
as Yoichi
as Detective Wakamiya
as Seiji
as Taichi
as Kikuchi
as Ishioka
as Shiro Kazuki
as Don-chol
as Takashi Nohara
as Tatsuo Sorayama
as Adama
as Sugioka
as Kodama Makato
as Fake
as Akakage
as Kenichi Satomi
as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
as Self
as Mitsuo Kondo
as Makoto Fujimoto
as Toshiyuki Yoshioka
as Satoru Suzuki
as Takuya
as Shuri Sawaki
as Takahara Ren
as Himself
as Shinji
Director
as Director
as Director