Masanobu Ando
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
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真田十勇士 SHADOWS OF THE TEN NINJA
as Sanada Yukimura
The Royal Family
as Hiroshi Hironaka
Stay Mum
as Yasuo Inukai
House of the Owl
as Ichiro Ogami
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Sadafumi Heguri
Destiny
as Okuda Takashi
My Second Aoharu
as Hinata Shogo
Rohan at the Louvre
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi
The Setting Sun
as Jiro Uehara
Thousand and One Nights
as Yoji Tamura
Pandora's Fruit
as Caen Karl
Fishbowl Wives
as Takuya Hiraga
My Brother, The Android And Me
as Unknown
Gossip
as Masaki Niwa
Tokyo Houchi Shokudo
as Kotaro Higashi
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
as Shinsaku Takasugi
The Ideal Man
as Mitsuyasu
ZOKKI
as Unknown
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
as Suzuki
Sakura
as Unknown
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
as Naoya Date（伊達 直哉）
The Sun Does Not Move
as Osamu Sakurai
The Ship of Theseus
as Mikio Kimura
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
as Unknown
Voice
as Kyosuke Kuon
Your Turn to Kill
as Go Sano
それを愛とまちがえるから
as Unknown
Day and Night
as Kenichi Kitamura
Cheers to Miki Clinic
as Miki Shouichirou
Black Scandal
as Unknown
Lenses on Her Heart
as Yuji Kiba
Love and Fortune
as Tsuchiya Jo
Code Blue: The Movie
as Hiroki Shinkai
Still Life of Memories
as Haruma
An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Kamimura Ren
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
as Haruki Kagawa
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
as Hajime Gakuto
A Flower Aflame
as Yasunori Ochi
Sadako vs. Kayako
as Keizō Tokiwa
Kokoro
as Jiro
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
as Yasui
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
as Osako Tatsuya
Gonin Saga
as Seiji Shikine
No No Sleep
as Japanese Man
Beautiful 2015
as Unknown
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
as Unknown
Petal Dance
as Naoto
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
as Shuji Yamura
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
as Unknown
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Smuggler
as Spine
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
as The Mute
Forever Enthralled
as Ryuichi Tanaka
Code Blue
as Shinkai Hiroki
Sukiyaki Western Django
as Yoichi
Nightmare Detective
as Detective Wakamiya
Sakuran
as Seiji
Crickets
as Taichi
Strawberry Shortcakes
as Kikuchi
Green Mind, Metal Bats
as Ishioka
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Shiro Kazuki
Aegis
as Don-chol
Synesthesia
as Takashi Nohara
Black Kiss
as Tatsuo Sorayama
69
as Adama
Karaoke Terror
as Sugioka
SHORT FILMS
as Unknown
Drive
as Kodama Makato
Tokyo 10+01
as Fake
Red Shadow
as Akakage
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
as Kenichi Satomi
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
as Self
Battle Royale
as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Making of 'Battle Royale'
as Self
Monday
as Mitsuo Kondo
Space Travelers
as Makoto Fujimoto
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
as Satô
Railroad Man
as Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Adrenaline Drive
as Satoru Suzuki
Innocent World
as Takuya
Blue Days
as Shuri Sawaki
When the Saints Go Marching In
as Takahara Ren
Making-of Kids Return
as Himself
Kids Return
as Shinji
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
as Unknown