
Cast
Masanobu Ando
Acting
Cast
Masanobu Ando
Known for
Acting
Born
1975-05-19
From
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Also known as Masanobu Andô, Andō Masanobu, Masanobu Andō
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

Battle Royale
as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
as Shinsaku Takasugi

City Hunter
as Hideyuki Makimura

Railroad Man
as Toshiyuki Yoshioka

Sadako vs. Kayako
as Keizō Tokiwa

Code Blue: The Movie
as Hiroki Shinkai

ZOKKI

Sukiyaki Western Django
as Yoichi

Kids Return
as Shinji

Sakuran
as Seiji

Still Life of Memories
as Haruma

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
as Suzuki

A Flower Aflame
as Yasunori Ochi

69
as Adama

Gonin Saga
as Seiji Shikine

Space Travelers
as Makoto Fujimoto

The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Sadafumi Heguri

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story

Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
as Hajime Gakuto

Red Shadow
as Akakage

Strawberry Shortcakes
as Kikuchi

Smuggler
as Spine

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

Monday
as Mitsuo Kondo

Rohan at the Louvre
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Shiro Kazuki

Karaoke Terror
as Sugioka

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
as Yasui

TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」

Petal Dance
as Naoto

Adrenaline Drive
as Satoru Suzuki

Aegis
as Don-chol

Forever Enthralled
as Ryuichi Tanaka

An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Kamimura Ren

Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
as Shuji Yamura

Black Kiss
as Tatsuo Sorayama

Kokoro
as Jiro

Day and Night
as Kenichi Kitamura

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
as The Mute

Crickets
as Taichi

Drive
as Kodama Makato

Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
as Self

Nightmare Detective
as Detective Wakamiya

The Setting Sun
as Jiro Uehara

Thousand and One Nights
as Yoji Tamura

Innocent World
as Takuya

School Ghost Story: Curse Special
as Satô

Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
as Kenichi Satomi

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

Making-of Kids Return
as Himself

Stay Mum
as Yasuo Inukai

No No Sleep
as Japanese Man

Lenses on Her Heart
as Yuji Kiba

SHORT FILMS

Synesthesia
as Takashi Nohara

Beautiful 2015

Green Mind, Metal Bats
as Ishioka

My Brother, The Android And Me

Making of 'Battle Royale'
as Self

Sakura

Tokyo 10+01
as Fake