Masanobu Ando

Masanobu Ando

1975-05-19

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

Also appears in

City Hunter

City Hunter

6.5

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

7.7

Battle Royale

Battle Royale

7.3

THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill

THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill

7.0

Kids Return

Kids Return

7.1

Sukiyaki Western Django

Sukiyaki Western Django

6.3

The Yin-Yang Master Zero

The Yin-Yang Master Zero

5.4

Sadako vs. Kayako

Sadako vs. Kayako

5.5

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag

7.3

Railroad Man

Railroad Man

6.9

Sakuran

Sakuran

6.5

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge

8.1

A Flower Aflame

A Flower Aflame

6.0

Monday

Monday

6.9

Rohan au Louvre

Rohan au Louvre

7.0

Nightmare Detective

Nightmare Detective

5.9

Red Shadow

Red Shadow

4.8

Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final

Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final

6.6

Karaoke Terror

Karaoke Terror

6.0

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation

6.0