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
★7.7
MOVIE2021
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
as Shinsaku Takasugi
★7.3
MOVIE2000
Battle Royale
as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
★6.5
MOVIE2024
City Hunter
as Hideyuki Makimura
★5.6
MOVIE2016
Sadako vs. Kayako
as Keizō Tokiwa
★6.5
MOVIE2004
69
as Adama
★5.8
MOVIE2016
A Flower Aflame
as Yasunori Ochi
★7.1
MOVIE1999
Railroad Man
as Toshiyuki Yoshioka
★6.9
MOVIE1996
Kids Return
as Shinji
★5.7
MOVIE2003
Karaoke Terror
as Sugioka
MOVIE2003
SHORT FILMS
★5.7
MOVIE2016
Kokoro
as Jiro
★6.5
MOVIE2006
Sakuran
as Seiji
★6.2
MOVIE2007
Sukiyaki Western Django
as Yoichi
★6.9
MOVIE2001
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
as Kenichi Satomi
★6.0
MOVIE2016
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
as Yasui
★6.1
MOVIE2000
Space Travelers
as Makoto Fujimoto
★6.6
MOVIE2016
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
as Hajime Gakuto
★6.4
MOVIE2011
Smuggler
as Spine
★5.9
MOVIE2015
No No Sleep
as Japanese Man
★5.6
MOVIE2006
Strawberry Shortcakes
as Kikuchi
★7.0
MOVIE2021
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
as Suzuki
★4.5
MOVIE2017
An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Kamimura Ren
★7.3
MOVIE2011
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
★8.0
MOVIE2011
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
★6.7
MOVIE2018
Code Blue: The Movie
as Hiroki Shinkai
★6.2
MOVIE2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Sadafumi Heguri
★7.0
MOVIE2000
Monday
as Mitsuo Kondo
★5.5
MOVIE2004
Black Kiss
as Tatsuo Sorayama
★4.9
MOVIE2001
Red Shadow
as Akakage
★4.1
MOVIE2018
Still Life of Memories
as Haruma
★6.4
MOVIE2006
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Shiro Kazuki
★4.8
MOVIE2005
Synesthesia
as Takashi Nohara
★5.4
MOVIE2005
Aegis
as Don-chol
★5.5
MOVIE1993
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
★5.1
MOVIE2015
Gonin Saga
as Seiji Shikine
★6.3
MOVIE2002
Tokyo 10+01
as Fake
★6.9
MOVIE2002
Drive
as Kodama Makato
★6.2
MOVIE2008
Forever Enthralled
as Ryuichi Tanaka
★5.4
MOVIE2011
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
as The Mute
MOVIE2021
Sakura
★6.1
MOVIE2007
Nightmare Detective
as Detective Wakamiya
★6.4
MOVIE2013
Petal Dance
as Naoto
★7.2
MOVIE1999
Adrenaline Drive
as Satoru Suzuki
★7.0
MOVIE1998
Innocent World
as Takuya
MOVIE2022
My Brother, The Android And Me
★7.3
MOVIE2021
ZOKKI
★7.8
MOVIE2012
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
MOVIE2015
Beautiful 2015
★7.0
MOVIE2006
Crickets
as Taichi
★1.0
MOVIE2013
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
as Shuji Yamura
★6.0
MOVIE2022
Thousand and One Nights
as Yoji Tamura
★7.7
MOVIE2023
Rohan at the Louvre
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi
★6.0
MOVIE2022
The Setting Sun
as Jiro Uehara
★6.2
MOVIE2019
Day and Night
as Kenichi Kitamura
★6.6
MOVIE2006
Green Mind, Metal Bats
as Ishioka
★7.7
MOVIE2024
Stay Mum
as Yasuo Inukai
MOVIE2001
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
as Self
★8.8
MOVIE2000
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
as Satô
★6.8
MOVIE1996
Making-of Kids Return
as Himself
MOVIE2000
Making of 'Battle Royale'
as Self
MOVIE2019
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
★7.0
MOVIE2018
Lenses on Her Heart
as Yuji Kiba