Masanobu Ando
Age: N/A | From: Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Person Details
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Aliases: Masanobu Andô , Andō Masanobu , Masanobu Andō , Andô Masanobu , Masanobu Andou , Andou Masanobu , 安藤 政信
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Homepage: https://www.horipro.co.jp/andomasanobu/
Movie Involvements: 40
TV Involvements: 16
Most Famous Work
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
Most Famous Work
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
(2021) Shinsaku Takasugi
Your Turn To Kill
(2019) Go Sano
Battle Royale
(2000) Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Code Blue
(2008) Hiroki Shinkai
Sadako vs. Kayako
(2016) Keizō Tokiwa
Fishbowl Wives
(2022) Takuya Hiraga
Love and Fortune
(2018) Tsuchiya Jo
Kids Return
(1996) ShinjiActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Ryunosuke Tatsumi | |
| 2022 | Jiro Uehara | |
| Yoji Tamura | ||
| Caen Karl | ||
| Takuya Hiraga | ||
| N/A | ||
| Masaki Niwa | ||
| 2021 | Kotaro Higashi | |
| Shinsaku Takasugi | ||
| Mitsuyasu | ||
| N/A | ||
| Suzuki | ||
| 2020 | Naoya Date（伊達 直哉） | |
| Osamu Sakurai | ||
| Mikio Kimura | ||
| 2019 | Kyosuke Kuon | |
| Go Sano | ||
| N/A | ||
| Kenichi Kitamura | ||
| Miki Shouichirou | ||
| 2018 | N/A | |
| Yuji Kiba | ||
| Tsuchiya Jo | ||
| Hiroki Shinkai | ||
| Haruma | ||
| 2017 | Kamimura Ren | |
| 2016 | Hajime Gakuto | |
| Yasunori Ochi | ||
| Keizō Tokiwa | ||
| Jiro | ||
| Yasui | ||
| 大迫达也 | ||
| 2015 | Seiji Shikine | |
| Japanese man | ||
| 2013 | Naoto | |
| Shuji Yamura | ||
| 2012 | N/A | |
| 2011 | Spine | |
| Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan | ||
| Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan | ||
| The Mute | ||
| 2008 | Ryuichi Tanaka | |
| Hiroki Shinkai | ||
| 2007 | Yoichi | |
| Detective Wakamiya | ||
| 2006 | Seiji | |
| Taichi | ||
| Kikuchi | ||
| Ishioka | ||
| Shiro Kazuki | ||
| 2005 | Don-chol | |
| Takashi Nohara | ||
| 2004 | Tatsuo Sorayama | |
| Adama | ||
| 2003 | Sugioka | |
| N/A | ||
| 2002 | Kodama Makato | |
| Fake | ||
| 2001 | Akakage | |
| Kenichi Satomi | ||
| Self | ||
| 2000 | Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6) | |
| Self | ||
| Mitsuo Kondo | ||
| Makoto Fujimoto | ||
| Satô | ||
| 1999 | Toshiyuki Yoshioka | |
| Satoru Suzuki | ||
| 1998 | N/A | |
| Shuri Sawaki | ||
| Takahara Ren | ||
| 1997 | N/A | |
| 1996 | Himself | |
| Shinji | ||
| 1993 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |