Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1975-05-19 (Age: 51)
Place of Birth
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Masanobu Ando
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 (62)
Stay Mum
2024
City Hunter
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024
Rohan at the Louvre
2023
The Setting Sun
2022
Thousand and One Nights
2022
My Brother, The Android And Me
2022
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2021
ZOKKI
2021
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
2021
Sakura,
2021
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
2019
Day and Night
2019
Lenses on Her Heart
2018
