Masanobu Ando
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- ActionWarriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
- FantasyNightmare Detective
- AdventureBattle Royale
- HorrorSadako vs. Kayako
- DramaSmuggler
- ActionSukiyaki Western Django
- DramaA Flower Aflame
- DramaStill Life of Memories
- ActionRed Shadow
- DramaBlack Scandal
- DramaBlue Days
- DramaTransparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
- CrimeKids Return
- DramaBig Bang Love, Juvenile A
- DramaDay and Night
- DramaNo No Sleep
- ComedyAdrenaline Drive
- MysteryCheers to Miki Clinic
- ComedyGreen Mind, Metal Bats
- Drama69
- DramaInnocent World
- movieMy Brother, The Android And Me
- FamilyRex: A Dinosaur's Story
- ThrillerSynesthesia
- DramaFishbowl Wives
- ActionWarriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
- Action & AdventureThe Sun Does Not Move
- ActionSailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
- DramaWhen the Saints Go Marching In
- DramaBig Bang Love, Juvenile A
- ComedyMonday
- ActionSpace Travelers
- DramaKaraoke Terror
- DramaDIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
- DramaCrickets
- ActionTokyo 10+01
- movieSHORT FILMS
- DramaSelf-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
- HorrorSchool Ghost Story: Curse Special
- DramaRailroad Man
- CrimeDrive
- CrimeBlack Kiss
- DocumentaryMaking-of Kids Return
- DramaThousand and One Nights
- ActionRurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
- MysteryRohan at the Louvre
- MysteryPandora's Fruit
- ActionTHE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
- CrimeThe Ship of Theseus
- CrimeVoice
- DramaThe Ideal Man
- ActionGonin Saga
- movieSHORT FILMS
- DramaStrawberry Shortcakes
- DramaZOKKI
- DocumentaryMaking of 'Battle Royale'
- DramaSakuran
- DramaForever Enthralled
- DramaKokoro
- DramaGossip
- ComedyPetal Dance
- DocumentaryShooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
- DramaAn Emblem Dedicated To You
- DramaMy Second Aoharu
- ActionAegis
- DramaCode Blue
- ComedyUshijima the Loan Shark The Final
- DramaCode Blue: The Movie
- DramaLove and Fortune
- DramaTokyo Houchi Shokudou
- ComedyLenses on Her Heart
- MysteryKeigo Higashino Mysteries
- MysteryYour Turn To Kill
- showKoi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
- Familyそれを愛とまちがえるから
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Masanobu Ando
Actor
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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- Place of Birth
- Kanagawa, Japan
- Known Credits
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