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Masanobu Ando

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").


Aliases
  • Andou Masanobu
  • Masanobu Andou
  • Andō Masanobu
English 日本語

バトル・ロワイアル

2000
as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Railroad Man

1999
as Toshiyuki Yoshioka

Cheers to Miki Clinic

2019
as Miki Shoichiro

Aegis

2005
as Don-chol

DRIVE

2002
as Kodama Makato

Tokyo 10+01

2002
as Fake

かくしごと

2024
as 犬養安雄

Space Travelers

2000
as Makoto Fujimoto

麒麟がくる

2020
as 柴田勝家

悪夢探偵

2006
as Detective Wakamiya

金魚妻

2022
as Hiraga Takuya

シティーハンター

2024
as 槇村秀幸

69

2004
as Adama

Synesthesia

2005
as Takashi Nohara

テセウスの船

2020
as Kimura Mikio

Destiny

2024
as 奥田貴志

Forever Enthralled

2008
as Ryuichi Tanaka

Day and Night

2019
as Kenichi Kitamura

Gonin Saga

2015
as Seiji Shikine

こおろぎ

2007
as Taichi

千夜、一夜

2022
as 田村洋司

陰陽師0

2024
as 平郡貞文

Adrenaline Drive

1999
as Satoru Suzuki

Sakuran

2006
as Seiji

Code Blue: The Movie

2018
as Hiroki Shinkai

Lenses on Her Heart

2018
as Yuji Kiba

Kids Return

1996
as Shinji

Smuggler

2011
as Spine

Monday

2000
as Mitsuo Kondo, the dead man

ゾッキ

2021
as 道場の師範代

Ao no Jidai

1998
as Sawaki

Red Shadow

2001
as Akakage

Petal Dance

2013
as Naoto

Guest Star

Episode 東京放置食堂
最終話
2021
Episode Keigo Higashino Mysteries
Full of Charades
2012