Masanobu Ando
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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 WikipediaRead full biography
TV Shows
12 Tracked Shows
Other Credits
Gossip (2022), The Ideal Man (2021), The Ship of Theseus (2020), DIVER -Special Investigation Unit- (2020), The Sun Does Not Move (2020), それを愛とまちがえるから (2019), Cheers to Miki Clinic (2019), Love and Fortune (2018), Black Scandal (2018), Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko! (2016), Keigo Higashino Mysteries (2012), When the Saints Go Marching In (1998), Blue Days (1998), Tomodachi no Koibito (1997)