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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
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8

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

(2021) Shinsaku Takasugi
Your Turn To Kill
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8

Your Turn To Kill

(2019) Go Sano
Battle Royale
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7

Battle Royale

(2000) Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Code Blue
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8

Code Blue

(2008) Hiroki Shinkai
Sadako vs. Kayako
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6

Sadako vs. Kayako

(2016) Keizō Tokiwa
Fishbowl Wives
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6

Fishbowl Wives

(2022) Takuya Hiraga
Love and Fortune
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7

Love and Fortune

(2018) Tsuchiya Jo
Kids Return
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7

Kids Return

(1996) Shinji

Acting

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

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