Masanobu Ando
俳優
1975年5月19日 (50年)
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
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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
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作品リスト
| 2025 | Passing the Reins · as Hiroshi Hironaka |
| 2024 | Kakushigoto · as Yasuo Inukai |
| 2024 | City Hunter · as Hideyuki Makimura |
| 2024 | House of the Owl · as Ichiro Ogami |
| 2024 | The Yin Yang Master Zero · as Sadafumi Heguri |
| 2024 | Destiny · as Okuda Takashi |
| 2023 | Mai Sekando Aoharu · as Hinata Shogo |
| 2023 | Rohan at the Louvre · as Ryunosuke Tatsumi |
| 2022 | The Setting Sun · as Jiro Uehara |
| 2022 | Thousand and One Nights · as Yoji Tamura |
| 2022 | Pandora's Fruit · as カール・カーン |
| 2022 | Fishbowl Wives · as Takuya Hiraga [sakura's Husband] |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | GOSSIP – #What she wants to know · as Masaki Niwa |
| 2021 | Tokyo Houchi Shokudo · as Kotaro Higashi |
| 2021 | The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill · as Suzuki |
| 2021 | Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part II - The Beginning · as Shinsaku Takasugi |
| 2021 | Riso no Otoko · as Mitsuyasu |
| 2020 | |
| 2020 | Diver-Special Investigation Unit- · as Naoya Date（伊達 直哉） |
| 2020 | The Sun Stands Still - The Eclipse · as Osamu Sakurai |
| 2020 | The Ship of Theseus · as Mikio Kimura |
| 2020 | Awaiting Kirin · as Katsuie Shibata |
| 2020 | Ship of Theseus · as Mikio Kimura |
| 2019 | Voice (JP) · as Kyosuke Kuon |
| 2019 | Your Turn to Kill · as Go Sano |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Day and Night · as Kenichi Kitamura |
| 2019 | Cheers to Miki Clinic · as Miki Shouichirou |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | Lenses on Her Heart · as Yuji Kiba |
| 2018 | Code Blue: The Movie · as Hiroki Shinkai |
| 2018 | Love and Fortune (2018) · as Tsuchiya Jo |
| 2018 | Still Life of Memories · as Haruma |
| 2017 | An Emblem Dedicated to You · as Kamimura Ren |
| 2016 | Ushijima the Loan Shark the Final · as Hajime Gakuto |
| 2016 | Pretty Proofreader · as Kiritani |
| 2016 | Kashin · as Yasunori Ochi |
| 2016 | Sadako vs. Kayako · as Keizō Tokiwa |
| 2016 | Kokoro · as Jiro |
| 2016 | Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation · as Yasui |
| 2016 | Let's Take A Sanriku Matchmaking-Party Train! · as Osako Tatsuya |
| 2015 | Gonin Saga · as Seiji Shikine |
| 2015 | |
| 2013 | Petal Dance · as Naoto |
| 2013 | Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope · as Shuji Yamura |
| 2012 | |
| 2012 | Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale · as Genji Kojima, Constable At Tonbara Clan |
| 2011 | Smuggler · as Spine |
| 2011 | Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale II · as Genji Kojima, Constable At Tonbara Clan |
| 2011 | Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale I · as Genji Kojima, Constable At Tonbara ClanPlex上 |
| 2010 | The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman · as The Mute |
| 2008 | Forever Enthralled · as Ryuichi Tanaka |
| 2008 | Code Blue · as Shinkai Hiroki |
| 2007 | Sukiyaki Western Django · as Yoichi |
| 2006 | Sakuran · as Seiji |
| 2006 | Crickets · as Taichi |
| 2006 | Strawberry Shortcakes · as Kikuchi |
| 2006 | Big Bang Love, Juvenile A · as Shiro Kazuki |
| 2006 | Green Mind, Metal Bats · as Ishioka |
| 2006 | Nightmare Detective · as Detective Wakamiya |
| 2005 | Aegis · as Don-Chol |
| 2005 | Synesthesia · as Takashi Nohara |
| 2004 | Black Kiss · as Tatsuo Sorayama |
| 2004 | 69 · as Adama |
| 2003 | Shôwa kayô daizenshû · as Sugioka |
| 2003 | Tokyo 10+01 · as Fake |
| 2002 | Drive · as Kodama Makato |
| 2001 | Red Shadow · as AkakagePlex上 |
| 2001 | Satorare · as Kenichi Satomi |
| 2000 | Battle Royale · as Kazuo Kiriyama (boy #6)Plex上 |
| 2000 | Monday · as Mitsuo Kondo |
| 2000 | Space Travelers · as Makoto Fujimoto |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 | Adrenaline Drive · as Satoru Suzuki |
| 1999 | The Railroad Man · as Toshiyuki Yoshioka |
| 1998 | Ao no Jidai · as Shuri Sawaki |
| 1998 | When the Saints Go Marching In · as Takahara Ren |
| 1996 | Kids Return · as Shinji |
| 1993 |
| 2000 | Batoru rowaiaru gaiden · as Self |
| 1996 | Making-of Kids Return · as Himself |