Masanobu Ando
ActingMasanobu 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
Known For
Battle Royale
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Shinsaku Takasugi
City Hunter
Hideyuki Makimura
A Flower Aflame
Yasunori Ochi
Sakuran
Seiji
Railroad Man
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Kids Return
Shinji
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Suzuki
Code Blue: The Movie
Hiroki Shinkai
Smuggler
Spine
Filmography — Acting
Battle Royale
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Shinsaku Takasugi
City Hunter
Hideyuki Makimura
A Flower Aflame
Yasunori Ochi
Sakuran
Seiji
Railroad Man
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Kids Return
Shinji
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Suzuki
Code Blue: The Movie
Hiroki Shinkai
Smuggler
Spine
Crickets
Taichi
ZOKKI
Aegis
Don-chol
Space Travelers
Makoto Fujimoto
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Yasui
Still Life of Memories
Haruma
Sadako vs. Kayako
Keizō Tokiwa
Monday
Mitsuo Kondo
Forever Enthralled
Ryuichi Tanaka
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Sadafumi Heguri
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Hajime Gakuto
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Sukiyaki Western Django
Yoichi
Karaoke Terror
Sugioka
Black Kiss
Tatsuo Sorayama
Adrenaline Drive
Satoru Suzuki
Drive
Kodama Makato
Synesthesia
Takashi Nohara
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Lenses on Her Heart
Yuji Kiba
Day and Night
Kenichi Kitamura
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
The Mute
Strawberry Shortcakes
Kikuchi
Nightmare Detective
Detective Wakamiya
My Brother, The Android And Me
Gonin Saga
Seiji Shikine
Innocent World
Takuya
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kamimura Ren
Rohan at the Louvre
Ryunosuke Tatsumi
Thousand and One Nights
Yoji Tamura
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Shiro Kazuki
Petal Dance
Naoto
No No Sleep
Japanese Man
Stay Mum
Yasuo Inukai
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
Green Mind, Metal Bats
Ishioka
Red Shadow
Akakage
The Setting Sun
Jiro Uehara
Making of 'Battle Royale'
Self
69
Adama
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
Satô
Kokoro
Jiro
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Self
Sakura,
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
Shuji Yamura
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Kenichi Satomi
SHORT FILMS
Making-of Kids Return
Himself
Tokyo 10+01
Fake
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
