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
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Known For
Stay Mum
Yasuo Inukai
2024
City Hunter
Hideyuki Makimura
2024
House of the Owl
Ichiro Ogami · (10 episodes)
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Sadafumi Heguri
2024
Destiny
Okuda Takashi · (9 episodes)
2024
My Second Aoharu
Hinata Shogo · (10 episodes)
2023
Rohan at the Louvre
Ryunosuke Tatsumi
2023
The Setting Sun
Jiro Uehara
2022
Thousand and One Nights
Yoji Tamura
2022
Pandora's Fruit
Caen Karl · (16 episodes)
2022
Fishbowl Wives
Takuya Hiraga · (8 episodes)
2022
My Brother, The Android And Me
2022
Gossip
Masaki Niwa · (11 episodes)
2022
Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
Kotaro Higashi · (8 episodes)
2021
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Shinsaku Takasugi
2021
The Ideal Man
Mitsuyasu · (8 episodes)
2021
ZOKKI
2021
THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Suzuki
2021
Sakura,
2021
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
Naoya Date（伊達 直哉） · (5 episodes)
2020
The Sun Does Not Move
Osamu Sakurai · (6 episodes)
2020
The Ship of Theseus
Mikio Kimura · (10 episodes)
2020
Voice
Kyosuke Kuon · (10 episodes)
2019
Your Turn To Kill
Go Sano · (20 episodes)
2019
それを愛とまちがえるから
(5 episodes)
2019
Day and Night
Kenichi Kitamura
2019
Cheers to Miki Clinic
Miki Shouichirou · (10 episodes)
2019
Black Scandal
(10 episodes)
2018
Lenses on Her Heart
Yuji Kiba
2018
Love and Fortune
Tsuchiya Jo · (12 episodes)
2018
Code Blue: The Movie
Hiroki Shinkai
2018
Still Life of Memories
Haruma
2018
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kamimura Ren
2017
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
Haruki Kagawa · (1 episode)
2016
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Hajime Gakuto
2016
A Flower Aflame
Yasunori Ochi
2016
Sadako vs. Kayako
Keizō Tokiwa
2016
Kokoro
Jiro
2016
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Yasui
2016
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
Osako Tatsuya · (3 episodes)
2016
Gonin Saga
Seiji Shikine
2015
No No Sleep
Japanese Man
2015
Petal Dance
Naoto
2013
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
Shuji Yamura
2013
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
(11 episodes)
2012
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2012
Smuggler
Spine
2011
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2011
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2011
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
The Mute
2011
Forever Enthralled
Ryuichi Tanaka
2008
Code Blue
Hiroki Shinkai · (10 episodes)
2008
Sukiyaki Western Django
Yoichi
2007
Nightmare Detective
Detective Wakamiya
2007
Sakuran
Seiji
2006
Crickets
Taichi
2006
Strawberry Shortcakes
Kikuchi
2006
Green Mind, Metal Bats
Ishioka
2006
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Shiro Kazuki
2006
Aegis
Don-chol
2005
Synesthesia
Takashi Nohara
2005
Black Kiss
Tatsuo Sorayama
2004
69
Adama
2004
Karaoke Terror
Sugioka
2003
SHORT FILMS
2003
Drive
Kodama Makato
2002
Tokyo 10+01
Fake
2002
Red Shadow
Akakage
2001
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Kenichi Satomi
2001
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Self
2001
Battle Royale
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
2000
Making of 'Battle Royale'
Self
2000
Monday
Mitsuo Kondo
2000
Space Travelers
Makoto Fujimoto
2000
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
Satô
2000
Railroad Man
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
1999
Adrenaline Drive
Satoru Suzuki
1999
Innocent World
Takuya
1998
Blue Days
Shuri Sawaki · (11 episodes)
1998
When the Saints Go Marching In
Takahara Ren · (11 episodes)
1998
Tomodachi no Koibito
(12 episodes)
1997
Making-of Kids Return
Himself
1996
Kids Return
Shinji
1996
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1993