Masanobu Ando
Born: 1975-05-19 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- The Royal Family as Hiroshi Hironaka
2024
- House of the Owl as Ichiro Ogami
- Destiny as Okuda Takashi
- City Hunter as Hideyuki Makimura
- The Yin Yang Master Zero as Sadafumi Heguri
- Stay Mum as Yasuo Inukai
2023
- My Second Aoharu as Hinata Shogo
- Rohan at the Louvre as Ryunosuke Tatsumi
2022
- Fishbowl Wives as Takuya Hiraga [Sakura's husband]
- Pandora's Fruit as Caen Karl
- Gossip as Masaki Niwa
- The Setting Sun as Jiro Uehara
- Thousand and One Nights as Yoji Tamura
- My Brother, The Android And Me
2021
- Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning as Shinsaku Takasugi
- Tokyo Houchi Shokudou as Kotaro Higashi
- The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill as Suzuki
- The Ideal Man as Mitsuyasu
- ZOKKI
- Sakura,
2020
- The Ship of Theseus as Mikio Kimura
- The Sun Does Not Move as Osamu Sakurai
- DIVER -Special Investigation Unit- as Naoya Date（伊達 直哉）
2019
- Your Turn to Kill as Go Sano
- Voice as Kyosuke Kuon
- Cheers to Miki Clinic as Miki Shouichirou
- それを愛とまちがえるから
- Day and Night as Kenichi Kitamura
- TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
2018
- Love and Fortune as Tsuchiya Jo
- Still Life of Memories as Haruma
- Black Scandal
- Code Blue: The Movie as Hiroki Shinkai
- Lenses on Her Heart as Yuji Kiba
2017
- An Emblem Dedicated To You as Kamimura Ren
2016
- シリーズ・横溝正史短編集 as Haruki Kagawa
- Sadako vs. Kayako as Keizō Tokiwa
- Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko! as Osako Tatsuya
- A Flower Aflame as Yasunori Ochi
- Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation as Yasui
- Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final as Hajime Gakuto
- Kokoro as Jiro
2015
- The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
- Gonin Saga as Seiji Shikine
- No No Sleep as Japanese Man
- Beautiful 2015
2013
- Petal Dance as Naoto
- Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope as Shuji Yamura
2012
- Keigo Higashino Mysteries
- Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2011
- Smuggler as Spine
- Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
- Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
- The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman as The Mute
2008
- Code Blue as Shinkai Hiroki
- Forever Enthralled as Ryuichi Tanaka
2007
- Sukiyaki Western Django as Yoichi
- Nightmare Detective as Detective Wakamiya
2006
- Sakuran as Seiji
- Big Bang Love, Juvenile A as Shiro Kazuki
- Strawberry Shortcakes as Kikuchi
- Crickets as Taichi
- Green Mind, Metal Bats as Ishioka
2005
- Aegis as Don-chol
- Synesthesia as Takashi Nohara
2004
- 69 as Adama
- Black Kiss as Tatsuo Sorayama
2003
- Karaoke Terror as Sugioka
- SHORT FILMS
2002
- Drive as Kodama Makato
- Tokyo 10+01 as Fake
2001
- Red Shadow as Akakage
- Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE as Self
- Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius as Kenichi Satomi
2000
- Battle Royale as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
- Monday as Mitsuo Kondo
- Space Travelers as Makoto Fujimoto
- Making of 'Battle Royale' as Self
- School Ghost Story: Curse Special as Satô
1999
- Railroad Man as Toshiyuki Yoshioka
- Adrenaline Drive as Satoru Suzuki
1998
- When the Saints Go Marching In as Takahara Ren
- Blue Days as Shuri Sawaki
- Innocent World as Takuya
1997
1996
- Kids Return as Shinji
- Making-of Kids Return as Himself