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