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