Masanobu Ando
Acting • Born 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
Filmography
88 credits
Battle Royale
Movie • 2000
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Rohan at the Louvre
Movie • 2023
Ryunosuke Tatsumi
Adrenaline Drive
Movie • 1999
Satoru Suzuki
Kids Return
Movie • 1996
Shinji
My Brother, The Android And Me
Movie • 2022
Sukiyaki Western Django
Movie • 2007
Yoichi
Monday
Movie • 2000
Mitsuo Kondo
Nightmare Detective
Movie • 2007
Detective Wakamiya
Drive
Movie • 2002
Kodama Makato
Black Kiss
Movie • 2004
Tatsuo Sorayama
Space Travelers
Movie • 2000
Makoto Fujimoto
Railroad Man
Movie • 1999
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Strawberry Shortcakes
Movie • 2006
Kikuchi
Smuggler
Movie • 2011
Spine
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
Movie • 2011
The Mute
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Movie • 2001
Kenichi Satomi
SHORT FILMS
Movie • 2003
The Setting Sun
Movie • 2022
Jiro Uehara
Aegis
Movie • 2005
Don-chol
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Movie • 2001
Self
Making of 'Battle Royale'
Movie • 2000
Self
Petal Dance
Movie • 2013
Naoto
Forever Enthralled
Movie • 2008
Ryuichi Tanaka
Synesthesia
Movie • 2005
Takashi Nohara
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Movie • 2024
Sadafumi Heguri
Thousand and One Nights
Movie • 2022
Yoji Tamura
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
Movie • 2011
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Sakuran
Movie • 2006
Seiji
Red Shadow
Movie • 2001
Akakage
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Movie • 2011
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Innocent World
Movie • 1998
Takuya
Tokyo 10+01
Movie • 2002
Fake
Karaoke Terror
Movie • 2003
Sugioka
69
Movie • 2004
Adama
Green Mind, Metal Bats
Movie • 2006
Ishioka
Crickets
Movie • 2006
Taichi
No No Sleep
Movie • 2015
Japanese Man
City Hunter
Movie • 2024
Hideyuki Makimura
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Movie • 2012
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Stay Mum
Movie • 2024
Yasuo Inukai
Gonin Saga
Movie • 2015
Seiji Shikine
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Movie • 2016
Yasui
Sadako vs. Kayako
Movie • 2016
Keizō Tokiwa
Kokoro
Movie • 2016
Jiro
Sakura,
Movie • 2021
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Movie • 2017
Kamimura Ren
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Movie • 2016
Hajime Gakuto
Code Blue: The Movie
Movie • 2018
Hiroki Shinkai
Still Life of Memories
Movie • 2018
Haruma
Day and Night
Movie • 2019
Kenichi Kitamura
Lenses on Her Heart
Movie • 2018
Yuji Kiba
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
Movie • 2000
Satô
Making-of Kids Return
Movie • 1996
Himself
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
Movie • 2013
Shuji Yamura
A Flower Aflame
Movie • 2016
Yasunori Ochi
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Movie • 2006
Shiro Kazuki
THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Movie • 2021
Suzuki
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
Movie • 1993
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Movie • 2021
Shinsaku Takasugi
ZOKKI
Movie • 2021
Beautiful 2015
Movie • 2015
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
Movie • 2019
When the Saints Go Marching In
TV • 1998
Takahara Ren
The Ideal Man
TV • 2021
Mitsuyasu
Blue Days
TV • 1998
Shuri Sawaki
Tomodachi no Koibito
TV • 1997
Code Blue
TV • 2008
Shinkai Hiroki
Gossip
TV • 2022
Masaki Niwa
Fishbowl Wives
TV • 2022
Takuya Hiraga [Sakura's husband]
My Second Aoharu
TV • 2023
Hinata Shogo
それを愛とまちがえるから
TV • 2019
Pandora's Fruit
TV • 2022
Caen Karl
Voice
TV • 2019
Kyosuke Kuon
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
TV • 2016
Haruki Kagawa
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
TV • 2016
Osako Tatsuya
The Ship of Theseus
TV • 2020
Mikio Kimura
Love and Fortune
TV • 2018
Tsuchiya Jo
Destiny
TV • 2024
Okuda Takashi
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
TV • 2012
Cheers to Miki Clinic
TV • 2019
Miki Shouichirou
Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
TV • 2021
Kotaro Higashi
House of the Owl
TV • 2024
Ichiro Ogami
Black Scandal
TV • 2018
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
TV • 2020
Naoya Date（伊達 直哉）
Your Turn to Kill
TV • 2019
Go Sano
The Sun Does Not Move
TV • 2020
Osamu Sakurai
The Royal Family
TV • 2025
Hiroshi Hironaka
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
TV • 2015