Masanobu Ando
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
Stay Mum
Yasuo Inukai
City Hunter
Hideyuki Makimura
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Sadafumi Heguri
Rohan at the Louvre
Ryunosuke Tatsumi
The Setting Sun
Jiro Uehara
Thousand and One Nights
Yoji Tamura
My Brother, The Android And Me
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Shinsaku Takasugi
ZOKKI
THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Suzuki
Sakura,
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
Day and Night
Kenichi Kitamura
Lenses on Her Heart
Yuji Kiba
Code Blue: The Movie
Hiroki Shinkai
Still Life of Memories
Haruma
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kamimura Ren
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Hajime Gakuto
A Flower Aflame
Yasunori Ochi
Sadako vs. Kayako
Keizō Tokiwa
Kokoro
Jiro
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Yasui
Gonin Saga
Seiji Shikine
No No Sleep
Japanese Man
Beautiful 2015
Petal Dance
Naoto
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
Shuji Yamura
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Smuggler
Spine
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
The Mute
Forever Enthralled
Ryuichi Tanaka
Sukiyaki Western Django
Yoichi
Nightmare Detective
Detective Wakamiya
Sakuran
Seiji
Crickets
Taichi
Strawberry Shortcakes
Kikuchi
Green Mind, Metal Bats
Ishioka
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Shiro Kazuki
Aegis
Don-chol
Synesthesia
Takashi Nohara
Black Kiss
Tatsuo Sorayama
69
Adama
Karaoke Terror
Sugioka
SHORT FILMS
Drive
Kodama Makato
Tokyo 10+01
Fake
Red Shadow
Akakage
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Kenichi Satomi
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Self
Battle Royale
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Making of 'Battle Royale'
Self
Monday
Mitsuo Kondo
Space Travelers
Makoto Fujimoto
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
Satô
Railroad Man
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Adrenaline Drive
Satoru Suzuki
Innocent World
Takuya
Making-of Kids Return
Himself
Kids Return
Shinji
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story