Masanobu Ando profile
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Masanobu Ando

19th May 1975 Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan Acting

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

62 Movies 25 TV Shows 88 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Aegis poster
Aegis 30th July 2005 as Don-chol
69 poster
69 10th July 2004 as Adama
Drive poster
Drive 24th August 2002 as Kodama Makato
Monday poster
Monday 29th April 2000 as Mitsuo Kondo
Destiny poster
Destiny 9th April 2024 as Okuda Takashi
Gossip poster
Gossip 6th January 2022 as Masaki Niwa
Voice poster
Voice 13th July 2019 as Kyosuke Kuon